On which the law enforcement system has already had its say - so how is it relevant to their having pot for personal use?
and likely were busted for probation violations.
Have any evidence that this is likely (rather than merely possible)?
Don't break up a quote and pretend that it wasn't all in the same sentence.
How did I "pretend" that? The first part ends with a comma and the second part begins with a lowercase letter - I left it quite clear that they were all in the same sentence.
As for proof, I know enough prison guards that have long ago debunked the liberaltarian BS about people thrown in prison for nothing but a little pot.
Unless you randomly selected the prison guards you know, their observations can't be reliably extrapolated to the prison population at large.
Pot regulation is the same as Alcohol regulation, and is working exactly as well as Prohibition.
You can be ‘conservative’ enough in your own personal behavior to be against being an alcoholic, but still want the government to stay out of controlling alcohol.
Similarly the government should stay out of controlling pot. There is way too much money spent on fighting this war on drugs which drives up its cost, which leads full circle to more criminal involvement because there is (illegal) money to be made.
That, to me, is more socially conservative - not in BEHAVIOR but in laws. Take away the laws and you take away the cost and the incentive to go into that business.
Conservatism is less government all around. This should be a state or local issue, if they choose to regulate it.