[JimRed]

I'm not going to fry my brain smoking weed. But I am also not going to support spending an inordinate amount of law enforcement time and dollars on a problem which, by most reliable measures, has less of an negative impact on society than DUI.

The problem with legalization is that many who are not inclined to be lawbreakers will now toke themselves into befuddled unemployability, and we'll end up paying as much or more supporting them as we would have for enforcement.

[NobleFree]

The problem with legalization is that many who are not inclined to be lawbreakers will now toke themselves into befuddled unemployability

Seems unlikely - the same sense of responsibility that disinclined them to be lawbreakers should keep them from indulging to that degree.

[Vigilanteman]

My father, who grew up though prohibition, said he never saw a drunken man in the street until prohibition was repealed. And he grew up in the major city on an Indian Reservation!

All the problems you mention with weed apply to booze and probably by a factor of 10 or more. But in the end, repeal had to be done because enforcement was simply unsustainable.