Either criminals get the money or tyrants do.
Think that you won’t be stopped and searched looking for untaxed pot at the whims of law enforcement?
I've never been stopped and searched looking for untaxed alcohol or tobacco at the whims of law enforcement, nor do I know anyone who has. Do you?
Google it.
A Google search for tobacco OR alcohol tax "search" shows no evidence for your claim that people are "stopped and searched looking for untaxed [goods] at the whims of law enforcement".
You may notice that states have laws on tobacco and alcohol, mostly for taxation enforcement. They have (often armed) folks with law enforcement powers.
Only you, it seems, are denying that they actually use these people and others to enforce laws.
No, I never denied that - you're backpedalling from your claim that people are "stopped and searched looking for untaxed [goods] at the whims of law enforcement". Your new statement - that tax laws are enforced - has the virtue of being realistic; but sadly for you, it gives no support to your claim that "Either criminals get the money [from recreational pot] or tyrants do." Enforcement of tax laws is not intrinsically tyrannical (unless you think the Founding Fathers were tyrannical for granting the federal government taxing powers).
Are you done yet positing your semantic argument?