[Mister Yamoto]

Pot smokers are greatly overrating the benefits of legalization.

Right now pot is cheap and easy to get. It's illegal, but the laws are loosely enforced.

The price of weed is the same as it was 25 years ago. That is because it is black market and the price is truly set by supply and demand. In that same timeframe the price of say gas, rent, milk, cigarettes, beer has doubled or in some cases tripled. Legalized marijuana will at least double in price right of the bat and will be taxed the same way any other "sin tax" is. 7$ of tax on 50 cents worth of tobacco. And the price will increase year after year far greater than the rate of inflation.

Although it might be fun to go to the marijuana store and say" I wanna try this new kind and gimme some more of the stuff I tried last week" those places are gonna be regulated up the yinyang. If you need to buy weed say at 11 at night, if you are drunk, if it is a holiday, if you are 17, if you have already bought your limit that month etc,etc then you are hooped.

Legalization is a very misleading term. Alcohol is legal, right? But look at all the tickets and charges for DUI, public intoxication, underage drinking. Those laws, for the most part are strictly enforced. Right now the marijuana laws for mere possession are pretty much ignored by law enforcement. And if you are a smoker that is even better than legalization. If legalization ever happened the amount of marijuana related charges would go way up.

Basically I am saying to the pro legalize people be careful what you wish for it just might happen.