Ricky Williams chooses pot over football.

[AChimp]

I haven't said that the way they're going about it is good. Worrying about penalizing petty abusers is a waste of time, and the same goes for the street corner pushers. You have to go after the head and destroy the source, which of course requires international cooperation. The US isn't exactly the best at making friends, though.

Legitimate companies would NEVER have a supply equal to the drug lords who have access to countless acres of jungle and one of the cheapest labour forces in the world. Or, you'd end up with drug lords starting up legitimate companies and laundering the money, still not paying any taxes.

Your wonderful cash cow has just gone up in smoke and now you've opened the floodgates for people with no personal responsibility to sue you for making it legal and "hurting them."

The only benefit is that tens of thousands of addicts would OD in the first couple of weeks' celebrations, thus removing themselves from the gene pool.