Eventually somebody in D.C. is going to come to their senses and realize that the War on Drugs... otherwise known as the law enforcement employment act... does not work. Prohibition never, ever works. Never has, never will.
Everytime the feds prohibit something that an individual chooses to use or ingest in his/her own body, a criminal enterprise springs up to support that demand. If the USA legalized drugs, global drug cartels would implode immediately, crime would decrease immensely, prisons and court rooms would have manageable workloads, taxpayers would save hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and addicts could be physician-assisted toward rehab if wanted, and monitor their health if rehab wasn't wanted.
Face it, major crime in just about every country in this continent is caused by drug cartels. If they go away, the majority of major crime magically disappears.
People who don't do drugs now are not going to run out and get high because it's legal, any more than people who don't drink become alcoholics because liquor is legal, or people who don't smoke decide to take up the habit because tobacco is legal. If people want to indulge in behavior that is damaging to their bodies, frankly they have the right to make that choice. Government money would be better spent educating them as to why they shouldn't make that choice instead of incarcerating them because they did.
It's really quite simple, and historically proven to be correct.
