The government is seeing what it can get away with. This stuff is not as alarming as the other stuff pot legalization will bring about. I will talk about that in the part two post I write.

How is a government monopolization over the sale and distribution a step in the right direction? People have always sold, distributed and consumed pot regularly prior to ‘legalization’. Things like driving under the influence of marijuana is stupid. People do it all the time, there hasn’t been much uproar about this until the government said it was going to legalize pot. Now all of a sudden it’s this big issue. No, they just want another reason to bust people and collect taxes. And other more sinister reasons I’ll will discuss in part two.

One positive I think worth noting is the pardon of people who’ve been jailed for cannabis related offences. However the downside is that they are still considered criminals and are unwelcome in other countries where pot is still illegal.

Anyways, thanks for the comment and have a great weekend!