There is no such thing as "legalizing marijuana," only an INCREASE in its regulation, and all of the required bloated state bureaucracy that goes with it.
What was once a dozen or so pages of penal code to ban it completely becomes thousands of pages of inherent boundaries to manage the resultant fallout.
Obvious nonsense - criminalizing across the board is self-evidently more restrictive than criminalizing under certain circumstances.
What was once a dozen or so pages of penal code to ban it completely becomes thousands of pages of inherent boundaries to manage the resultant fallout.
The intrusiveness of law is not well measured by the page; see above.