Furthermore, you can’t possibly compare alcohol to pot. NOBODY has a joint to wash down a pizza. You have beer with pizza, a glass of wine with pasta. It is a beverage. Most people I know enjoy it as a beverage. They enjoy a slight buzz, but they enjoy it as a beverage. Demand for alcohol comes from it being a beverage and it’s unique demand comes from the “buzz” side affects.
Outside of young people in their partying phase and die-hard alcoholics, I don’t know anyone who gets drunk on any regular basis. Yet the entire point of pot is to get stoned. You can’t use it as a supplement to something like alcohol is to a meal. You can’t use it as a substituted to cigarettes. Who smokes two packs of joints a day?
So your argument about demand doesn’t wash. Demand will increase but your using the wrong model with alcohol and prohibition. Not even close.
Guess what? Medical marijuana IS legal in California today, and there has been no surge in marijuana use, despite the fact any of us Californians can easily find a doctor who will write a perscription for it. Where is the soaring demand from legalized medical marijuana?
I can’t agree with you. Demand will not skyrocket.
Yeah, all those guys out there this weekend handing out 1,000s of DUI’s are handing them out to the vast majority of people who are just enjoying their liquor as a “beverage.” That also accounts for the huge quantities of hard alcohol that are sold. For the people who enjoy whiskey and rum as a “beverage.”