This is so dumb.
Not sure why the keep fighting this so hard.
Make marijuana legal, tax the snot out of it.

And no, I don't smoke. Never have.

With that rationale we should make every drug legal and tax the snot out of it.

I think pot should be legalized at the federal level.

That said, I do have some problems with what has been going on for the past several years. In places where it has been decriminalized, they are not doing a good job of regulating things. First off, there is way too much smoking in cars. Can't even walk through a church parking lot in Oklahoma without smelling it from 3 directions. Smoking while driving should be treated even more harshly than drinking. Also, it seems like the areas around dispensaries are always a slum. And there are way more slum areas in weed friendly states than anywhere else, granted that may be due to other factors as well. And it is a valid point that the tax revenue benefits don't seem to be paying out as advertised.

Perhaps most importantly, I don't like states ignoring federal laws. Either you have a strong federal government, or not. You can't just pick and choose. The very same states that started the Civil War are now doing the very same thing that they fought over in the first place. I'm all for states' rights, but this doesn't seem like the right way to go about it.