And our solution to illegal trafficking of alcohol was to legalize it. I think this was the right solution regarding that drug - and would be the right solution today at least as regards the #1-by-a-mile most used illegal drug: marijuana. Do you agree?
Marijuana for young people may affect brain development. People are voting to keep pot shops out of their community. In our community, they wanted to put a pot shop right across from the high school. Voters in our community voted against the pot shops by 7 percentage points. Some communities ban alcohol sales. In our community, alcohol is banned in certain parks.
Because legalization took a large segment of pot sales away from Mexico, growers in Mexico and Columbia turned to opium cultivation. Most of US heroin now comes from Mexico and Columbia. This makes it easier to get heroin in the country. We have a flood of heroin in our country and a huge population of homeless addicts under its grip.
My observations point to the consequences of the drugs. We need to deal with the consequences whether they are legal or not.