Legalization stops the high level dealers. They hate the idea and spend money to stop it. We have already shown that the logic of the drug laws just makes things worse. It is a man-made disaster.

When I was the public safety guy in the Office of the City Administrator there was no drop off in prosecutions (although many happened out of my reach in the US Atty Office. There was a landmark lawsuit over voting rights, however. One that I faciliated operationalizing a paper by my privagte lawyer (now Congressman) and the District. Getting Congress out of our hair would have been key to changing drug laws. Our US Attorney still tried to do things right. Nice guy. Eventually become the Attorney General of the United States.