Yes, let's ... 21 states legalize medical but not recreational marijuana.
For the record, legalizing dope does NOT reduce crime or significantly reduce illicit dope sales.
Link? Seems to me that every dollar spent in a legal shop is a dollar not spent with criminals - and that most if not all of the marijuana illegally grown in legalizing states is for sale in non-legalizing states, so probably just a change in origin rather than an increase.
Price elasticity of illegal versus legal cannabis: a behavioral economic substitutability analysis.
Amlung M et al. Addiction. 2019 Jan;114(1):112-118. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30194789
“CONCLUSIONS: Cannabis users treat legal cannabis as a superior commodity compared with illegal cannabis and exhibit asymmetric substitutability favoring legal product.”
Going by the experiance of my state, Nevada.
When the Gov. Org. taxes and regulates dope it gets even more expensive, so the illegal dope still thrives.
Including for local consumption.
The Hemp growers have to guard their “0” THC crops so that the genius dopers do not steal them.
“Yes, let’s ... 21 states legalize medical but not recreational marijuana”.
For now, but the “Recreational” dope is still a cartainty in the next too few years.
Watch for out of state pushers to buy off the legislatures, via “Initiative” $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ if necessary.
I have seen ZERO benifit to legal dope, but a great increase in the number of lazy dopers/casual thieves/gimme-’dat’s.
D’s now control our formerlyu very conservative state.