Great post—when the Democrats say “legalize” they mean bury the business in regulations and taxes.
They’ll “legalize” weed the way they “legalized” alcohol. The crooks and international speculators will get rich along with dishonest politicians.
One thing to think about prohibition: Before that, a lot of people had their home booze operations.
Booze is pretty hard and expensive to produce. If you want to make money from it, you have to invest in a large facility. A lot of plantations, farms, ranches made their own and when you DO make your own, you learn to love and value it. It takes about a bushel of some vegetable to produce a couple of bottles of decent wine - and a lot of time and careful monitoring. If you’re talking distillates, it’s a lot more stuff to make about an ounce or less of product.
In other words, it’s a labor of love. You and your household and servants are not going to just drink it all up as soon as it hits the bricks.
Once the government gets involved - wanting in on the potential racket and its potentially insane profits, since almost everybody likes booze, even non-drunks who only drink once in a great, great while, and of course some folks can never get enough of it - expect for everything to get jacked up. First they will prohibit alcohol (and blame women, right? almost everyone who campaigned against alcohol in the old days was a woman) and make everyone miserable (or dead).
THEN they bring it back, except with licensing, fees, regulations, and taxes.
Now that is happening with pot.
Haha, I’m waiting for the same with opiates. That will be a party, won’t it?