The Temperance people promised that eliminating alcohol would close down the jails. Anslinger wanted to stop [minority men] from making eyes at white women. I forget what LBJ promised, does anyone really care anymore? The bureaucrats got their jobs, what else matters at appropriation time?
AS I said on the previous incarnation of this thread, when we re-legalize there will be fewer lies in society: less lying propaganda, fewer occasions for cops to lie, fewer reasons for (ab)users to lie. IMO this alone is worth a lot more druggies. I'm not saying that lying and corruption will disappear, but I am sure they will decrease. Not to mention the decrease in Gov't employment and the taxes to fund it. IMO that is also worth a lot of (ab)users.
ON a more political front, I hear a lot on these threads about libertarians really being liberals, not a bit like conservatives. A thought experiment: Imagine that the D*m*cr*t party includes re-legalization in its platform and admits it was wrong to have rammed the MJ Tax Act thru. Does anyone really think this would be good for the GOP electorally? Whatever our differing views on releglization, keeping the g-d-mn socialists out of power is way more important. Right now, it's the LP, a few GOP-ers, and (I think) the Greens pushing for repeal. (If any D*ms are, please tell me who) Do any of the drug warriors really want the Jackass Party to get behind repeal? I know it's a fantasy right now, but if they get desparate enough they could try anything, especially now that we can redeploy the narcs to airport security and wouldn't have to fire them.
They might get some Libertarians, but they would lose the soccer Moms in droves. Go for it.
Pssst. The Greens ARE socialists. We'll see how quickly the libertarians embrace socialism when and if the Greens pick up speed in their zeal to repeal laws against societal- and self-destruction. Moral-liberal birds of a feather flock together.