Yes, but it wasn’t legalized per say for taxes so much as it was in response to the voters who demanded it overwhelmingly. There is no such outcry from the public to legalize it like there was for alcohol.
You also make the mistake of forgetting the culture of our society that has always had a nose turned our towards drugs, but not alcohol.
Societies that have always had drugs legal, have always been third world cultures, and that is where we are headed in America with the trend towards legalizing everything that has been considered immoral in our culture.
Remember, alcohol has never been immoral in our society, the behavior of those who get drunk has, but not the source of their behavior. Strange reality, but it is a fact.
All drugs were legal in the U.S. until the early 1900’s.
That would be 'per se'. And if all of the hysterical anti-weed articles are any indication it seems that a good number of voters are demanding that this Prohibition be repealed in CA.
There is no such outcry from the public to legalize it like there was for alcohol.
Right. This Proposition wandered onto the California ballot all on its own.
Societies that have always had drugs legal, have always been third world cultures,
Drugs were legal in the US until about 1915 or so. Were we a third world culture in 1915?
Remember, alcohol has never been immoral in our society,
You're not much for the history of your Country, are you. I suggest you crack a book or two before you spout off silliness like this. It makes you look stupid.
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Then how did it get to be a ballot measure with a good chance of passing in one of the most populous states in the country?