No it isn’t, it is a costly diversion from the problem, just another argument by people pretending to care, but who actually are fixated on legalizing drugs.
If we legalized loosies, we’d have one less violation and we’d be encouraging voluntary transactions. Legalizing them would hurt nobody.
If loosies were legal, then the police wouldn’t have stopped Garner.
Why do you want to protect Big Government revenuers and Big Tobacco?