The first wave of drug legalization at the state level, marijuana, was supposed to show that drug use could be safely normalized. Then other states like Washington and Oregon even tried decriminalizing hard drugs. That led to a wave of overdoses, but marijuana legalization is hardly a success story.
Because states like California began cashing in on drug legalization, they now spend just as much time and money chasing illegal growers and sellers who are often members of Asian and Latin American organized crime groups that are far more dangerous than the old dealers, and they have far fewer legal tools to go after them because they legalized marijuana. Catch 22.
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