Pot Legal in California, What does it mean for the rest of the country?
California became the first state in 2018 to legalize recreational marijuana use in the state and the whole state celebrated by getting high the night before and the morning afterwards, everywhere pot shops are packed with stoners from different backgrounds and from all social and economic classes.
California decided to legalize marijuana for various reasons, 1# to bring in much needed revenue to the state and to decrease the debt and increase the budget, 2# by decriminalizing the drug it takes pretty much the source of income for the criminal gangs and the destroys their network and control over the drug trade, 3# Decriminalization reduces non-violent people from being sent to prison for long prison terms and lowers the incarceration rates by more than 50% and people's lives aren't ruined by having criminal records because of drug charges.
The downside I see with the legalization of Marijuana is the higher rate of people getting stoned on the job and at school and the children being introduced to doing Marijuana at much younger ages and I see Marijuana as a gateway drug to more hardcore drugs like Cocaine and Heroin which are much more deadlier than Marijuana I have seen people already smoking weed on the job and they aren't afraid of repercussions.
I feel ashamed and angry that my state made Marijuana legal and it brings the morality of the country down more everything but I realize no matter what you try to ban people will always find ways to consume something that is forbidden, i;e Alcohol during the Probation, you can't really forbid people for destroying their own lives if they choose to, you cannot control people's actions all you can do is regulate a controlled substance and tax it so the government has control over it instead of the criminal underworld whom were terrorizing entire communities for decades with their guns, drugs and violence, why should the Mafia and the Gangs get rich?
