I'm not talking about legalizing all drugs. I don't think that would ever happen because not enough people would ever support that. I sure wouldn't. What the people want does matter still to politicians. They avoid coming out for things the vast majority of their constituents are against, and if they think most of voters in their districts are for something they'll often come out for it too if they think it might win them votes. Right now when politicians come out for legalization it doesn't win a lot of votes in this country, but I'm sure it turns a lot of voters off. For the most part only politicians on the fringe come out for legalization. I think that will change later on as more voters support it and we start thinking about ways to cut costs, save money and generate some tax revenues. The more data that comes in from around the world from countries with all different sorts of marijuana laws, ours make less and less sense. People are hearing about this. It is clear that the laws make little difference in the percentage of people in a country who will use marijuana. I think we are likely to see changes not only here, but elsewhere in the world as well. Some other country will probably legalize before us, and a lot will be talking about doing it. We're already seeing that. People's attitudes are changing about it right here in this country and that's going to continue.
In the coming years we will see more states decriminalize like Massachusetts just did with 65% of the vote. We'll see more get medical marijuana as we just saw happen in Michigan, with 63% of the vote. We'll see more of these useless resolutions passed like we saw happen in several cities around the U.S. this year where people in cities voted to make marijuana possession offenses the lowest priority for law enforcement. And eventually the feds will back off and several states are going to just legalize it and regulate it like alcohol.
I think legalizing pot would make a huge difference in the greater war on drugs. Americans consume more pot than all other illegal drugs combined. It's the drug that is making these Mexican cartels rich. They supply thousands of tons a year to the U.S., both grown here and in Mexico. They only supply a few hundred tons of all the other drugs combined and for the most part they are just middlemen in those transactions. Marijuana is their big money maker because they sell so much of it and because they make all the profits from production to wholesale sales and in some cases retail sales. The distribution networks for marijuana are massive. It's easily available in just about every corner of America, and this makes it so easy for organized crime to move their other far more dangerous drugs through the existing pipelines. If we take marijuana from them, not only will we be depriving them of billions of dollars every year from marijuana sales, but we'll make it harder for them to move their other more dangerous drugs. We'll save a fortune we would have spent going after marijuana. We'll rake in a fortune in tax revenues, and we can focus on going after cocaine and meth and heroin dealers who will be a lot easier to spot when we don't have so many pot dealers selling a little of this or that too.
not only does the government make money on the WOD, they grasp POWER. No government in all of recorded human history has ever given up power.
Drugs will never be legalized. Forget the logical arguments, it’s too late. If the people complain they just find a way around it. The ship has sailed, the cattle have left the barn. Pot, and everything else, will remain illegal in this country as long as there still is this country.