Wait, getting stoned is the solution to everything as long as the government gets a cut? So the government has become the drug pusher, oblivious to the ramifications of such a policy? That was always the policy, now it is in plain view, no longer will the state try to hide it. For the love of money is the root to all evil. I Timothy.
“So the government has become the drug pusher, oblivious to the ramifications of such a policy?”
State governments are supposed to regulate intrastate commerce per the Tenth Amendment. By your definition, the states are alcohol pushers, tobacco pushers and pushers of anything else that the states tax and regulate.