On balance, conservatives and middle America calculate that the effects of the wider use of drugs that would follow legalization would be far more severe than the costs and burdens of the drug war.
The costs of more wide spread drug use out weighs the costs of the drug war. Plus the analogy to liquor prohibition does not necessarily extrapolate to drugs. Look at gambling. Gambling is legal in Nevada, but it didn’t stop the mob from going there and running the gambling. It didn’t stop the mob from getting involved with Indian gambling, either.
What about those that don’t? If it were put up to a vote, then we would at least see how the majority thinks, instead of useless polls. I believe it will be going on the ballot in CA, if not mistaken.