Another benefit of legalization would be that the potency of pot could be controlled, unlike now, where some of it been ramped up to the point of being so heavy that it's more a narcotic than anything. This point seems lost on the drug warriors, few of which are old enough to remember that during alcohol prohibition the black market was full of dangerous 'bathtub gin', sometimes laced with poisonous wood alcohols and such. Legalization would remove much of the incentive to breed cannabis of such intense strength... the smuggler's aim is to pack as much THC into as small a space as they can, for obvious reasons.
Although not everyone in the pot trade is a sketchy character, people have and do get murdered over it. This is why I prefer to buy from local sources... the cheap commercial stuff from Mexico has bad karma all over it.
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