I think we should outlaw MJ. Put people in prison for possession and spend billions a year trying to stop the trafficking and use. It has worked so well this far. Maybe we should double the effort and show how serious we are.
Robbing banks is illegal, yet people still rob banks. So maybe we should just give up and make bank robbery legal.
You can’t use as a serious argument that crime is not stopped by making it illegal. The price of making it legal (in the name of saving money on cops, trials, prisons, etc.) is to greatly increase the activity, and increasing the amount of money society must spend to deal with the consequences.
My sense is that as the brain-damaging effects of marijuana become more documented and widely-known, this experiment with making it legal will end. I am beginning to think that Reefer Madness was not as over-the-top sensationalist as I thought when I first saw it, that it may actually be based on real observations of marijuana users.