“If this does pass it’s going to kill the pot side of the drug trafficking trade and all of the crime and violence that goes with it.”
It MAY possibly reduce “crime and violence”, but there will always be those who don’t have money and don’t want to work but WILL rip off the growers they know of for their drugs and cash, and then there’s plenty of growers who will fight back. There’s plenty of people (gibs-me-dats) who have their every need taken care of who still feel the need to steal.
Because the price of weed has gone down in my area, heroin and meth really picked up. MX cartels shifted a lot to heroin. Now heroin is all over the place. Dope dealers are in it for the money. If weed doesn’t get the $$ they want, they’ll sell something else. Crime won’t go down and crazed druggies will increase, just a different drugs. And a lot of people mix/n/match - weed and meth, heroin and weed, booze and any of them, opiates and any of them, etc. Makes people even more crazy!