In Colorado, a look at life after marijuana legalization
This does not look good. As somebody heavily in favor of decriminalization and legalization I am afraid the US is going the ruin the whole project, due to the way they are implementing this.<p>American traits of moralizing and money obsessed are showing some bad trends here.<p>My opinion favoring legalization is based on a desire to take the organized crime out of the equation and avoid turning lots of normal teenagers into criminals.<p>But like everything else it just looks like the US is totally overdoing this. Huge pot companies with advertisement and lots of variation of products and financial muscles is definitely NOT what I wished for.<p>With this approach one risks getting more new users than ever and get existing users to develop new bad habits. All these edibles makes my head shake.<p>I lived many years in the Netherlands where pot has been decriminalized for a long time. There is none of this American big capitalist approach to drug sales.<p>I don&#x27;t like the attitudes of pro-legalization people in the US. They wont accept that there are negative sides to drug use and seem to think there should be no restrictions.<p>It is as if there is never any middle ground in the US. Either you got the moralists who spell doom or you got people who think you should be free to do however dam you please. Where are the pragmatic people who accept it is a bad thing to do drugs but that a strict regulation is a better solution than a war on drugs.<p>I just hope the Canadians can manage to do this is a more sensible way.