There is a new station in the mid-Atlantic area that covers police activity 24 hours a day. A program I find particularly interesting is Alaska Highway Patrol. There MJ is illegal, but alcohol is also illegal in a lot of communities by community vote. While you see quite a lot of violent crime related to alcohol consumption, you mostly see stupid behavior related to pot consumption, and frequently to both pot and alcohol use by the same person. I wonder how Alaska would be if pot were legal, but alcohol was voted illegal in even more communities. They do have a problem with people brewing their own hootch, or bringing in bottled booze from out of town and selling it for a big markup which is also illegal. If they have that program in your area, check it out, lovely landscape shots, and also law enforcement of hunting and fishing regulations which I find interesting. They have a $10,000 fine for “wanton waste” of killed game animals.
You know, MJ has its problems. We had a man supposedly get too high off of a hash oil brownie here and kill his wife. But, he had other, underlying medical/mental issues.
But, when you see, over the years, the destruction that legal alcohol has wreaked on our society, it is overwhelming. Yet the same people screaming for illegal pot would kill you if you took away their wine or beer.
And, it is legal to brew alcohol at home in CO. It has spawned an amazing craft beer business in this country. Instead of going to a “pub” to drink the same old same old, you go to craft brewery bars and try out their combinations.
The other day I accompanied some coworkers to one of them by work; they had a pepper beer; a champagne beer. Since I don’t drink (or smoke pot), I have to take their word for how interesting the experience is.