Like I Washington and Colorado, it ends with the deterioration of shopping areas where these stores are located into panhandler, beggar and homeless encampments. Place where people shop for food or other goods, where these pot stores come in...and they will start popping up in practically every shopping center...will be besieged with the growing drugged dregs of society - looking for a “handout” and a campsite, and crime will increase along with it.
This is the “Broken Window” theory gone nuclear.
Not the case in my town...coastal Oregon. Buy your weed and git.
Just exactly the way it happened with repeal of prohibition, right?
The great depression happened during the prohibition era.
Billions of dollars and untold lives have been wasted in the war on pot, to little effect beyond expanding government police powers.
These are facts. Make of them what you will.