Your point about relief on the prison system is taken. However, I don’t see it producing much budgetary relief in the short term unless we went to the extreme of not just legalizing the stuff prospectively, but amnestying all the drug dealers and drug traffickers who are in prison now. That would be a truly stupid idea, on the level of pardoning Al Capone for the crimes he did in fact commit, but probably would not have committed if we’d had the good sense not to prohibit alcohol.

Both State, and Federal laws need to be repealed.

To answer your question though: Pot will never actually be legalized. The government will control it much as it does tobacco and alcohol. Outrageous “sin-taxes” will be applied and the proceeds divided up between local, state and federal governments.

The relief on the prison system will save additional dollars as well as create taxpayers out of the non-violent drug offenders who don’t belong in prison in the first place.
.-= David Scott´s last blog .. =-.

Activists never direct cancer patients and others to it because fed-legal medical marijuana doesn’t help create prohibition victims to politically exploit.