Not to mention that almost half of the U.S. population has used marijuana, so knows the hysterical Reefer Madness propaganda is BS. (That's why the drug czar some years back was telling desperate lies about marijuana being "30 times stronger" and "not your father's marijuana": he wanted to throw a big slice of that first-hand experience down the memory hole.)
Yup. And here is another thing to consider. In my opinion, the legalization of the sale of small amounts of MJ isn’t even the most significant part of these laws. It’s allowing cultivation that’s the real game changer. I looked up the yields for one plant, and apparently one pound per plant isn’t unheard of. OK, so let’s say you grow the six allowed plants that are typical under these state laws. That’s a lot of pot. And I suppose there are some folks who cultivate purely for the income. Not because they’re all that interested in consuming it. So there is now a cottage industry in these states as well.
The prohibitionists might as well hang it up. This is a done deal.