I think the comparison of the modern economy with pot illegal to prohibition is completely insane. Weed is not a multi billion dollar legal industry that was taken away from companies and tax collection, it is rather the opposite. Pot as a drug has never had anything to do with regulated consumer society in the US.
As far as the prison system, all it would do is lead to larger and broader ranging punishments for infractions. This is the pattern of anything that becomes legal and is frowned upon.
The result would be more ways for people to play the system, the further stuffing of the legal system and exaggeration of the baby sitting service we call a rehabilitation system, and more people be openly and more actively stupid than ever. Basically, nothing of any use will come of it.
|