When Phillip Morris opens a marijuana division, you don't really think the gangsters and drug lords will suddenly get real jobs?
They will turn to other crimes to supplement their lost drug dealing, we just won't have pot as an excuse to arrest them anymore.
Exactly, and that's a net benefit for our police, our tax rates, and society in general.
Because now, even if they do arrest someone the system is so overloaded with the average 600,000 annual arrests for simple non-violent possession of pot that they cut cakewalk deals just to get violent and anti-social habitual criminals processed through.
The habitual criminal who shot and killed my friend Officer Dan Niemi - who first introduced me to the shooting sports about five years ago - had been arrested several times, including a drunk-driving conviction, and was on parole through a plea-bargain instead of in prison where he belonged.