I think most people would say the violence would go down tremendously if not stop in the event that it were legalized.
I’m just saying that not all joints are the product of smuggling, but being a product of an illegal activity does invite other illegal activities. Not that legalization won’t involve illegal activities, but probably of a very different, non-violent kind.
I don’t smoke and have no desire to if it were legal, but that doesn’t mean people can’t believe it isn’t a waste of resources to prosecute people who do use.
Am I for legalization, sure why not. Even harder drugs like meth caused less violence back when they was legal.
But for the individual user if you know your actions of buying and smoking a joint is causing others to suffer is it ethical to keep doing it?