More states legalize Pot 8) when for Oz?

[Culprit]

Amazing that this is even a thing in this day and age. Drug use is a medical condition and prohibition has never worked. My late Brother was able to score (buy) Heroin in Richmond in the 70s quicker than he could get a Pizza. It's now 50 years later and it's the same deal yet the purity is higher. From memory 2021 was the USA's 50th anniversary on the war on drugs and they spent over a trillion dollars. If all drugs were made legal overnight all of a sudden the black market is gone, they would then shift to something else. I don't smoke dope these days as a positive gets me sacked and charged due to the nature of my work. California is getting a nice dope tax into State revenue and that's how it should be. All this rhetoric about drugs being illegal doesn't stop the use. Make it legal but treat addiction medically and save lives and taxes. I will add that just like Gay marriage didn't make people Gay, making dope legal isn't going to turn people into dope smokers.

[Skids]

Spot on Culprit.
Some states in the US are collecting close to a billion dollars annually in taxes on weed. Yet we still have the crims raking in the big bucks, it makes no sense at all

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/marijuana-taxes#:~:text=On%20a%20per%20capita%20basis,per%20capita%20cannabis%20tax%20revenue.