[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ending prohibition enforcement would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending, the report says, while taxation would yield up to $6.2 billion a year.

The reason it will never end is because that $7.7 billion pays a lot of salaries in the law enforcement and prison industries.

[bubman]

bingo!

[RKV]

When alcohol prohibition was repealed, guess where the 'revenuers" went - BATFE. Perhaps what we need is a diversionary strategy (post cannabis prohibition) to get the surplus LEOs into the Border Patrol. They stay employed doing something that is actually useful, and we get our freedom back.