[John the Savage]

As far as pot...we really need to legalize another vice. Yeah, that's the ticket.

The government can't even keep drugs out of its maximum security prisons. What makes you think it can keep drugs out of the whole country?

[Emperor Palpatine]

But remember....all the noble experiment of Prohibition did was increase alcoholism and greatly expand the power of Organized Crime. It was responsible for turning a rag-tag bunch of criminals into a Fortune 500 company, or as Meyer Lansky so eloquently put it, "We're bigger than U.S. Steel"