Could cocaine and khat be legalized in another 50 years?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

LOL@Tony.

Don't you actually oppose legalize even MARIJUANA?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

LOL@Tony.

Don't you actually oppose legalize even MARIJUANA?

I'm fine with personal consumption and (obviously) medical use. I don't think it should be sold for profit. For the record, I'd say the same about cigarettes.

So basically you want it to be legal to buy and use but have the only way to buy it via an illegal black market?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think I share Tony's dislike of the idea of the equivalent of Big Tobacco forming but around hard drugs. Nobody wants Joe Camel brand cocaine.

Are you familiar with the Washington and Colorado markets? Most of the stores function as more similar to farmer's markets or consignment shops. They get their product from small growers, and there is no megacorporations involved or marketing.

Also Tony you really need to think of the demographics of who is most likely to use marijuana with your suggestion people just "grow their own". You think college dorms are going to allow college students to set up growing spaces? Or that it's easy for hipsters who live in small cramped apartments?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Speaking as someone who has actually legally purchased marijuana, let me explain how it actually works. I was initially thinking that a dispensary would be like a liquor store only with marijuana, but that is not the case at all:

-When you enter the shop you're in nothing but a lobby. There's a receptionist behind a glass wall who checks your ID and asks you recreational or medical. There are two rooms with doors labeled as such behind you. You're then asked to have seat, similar to a doctor's office.

-Once it's your turn, someone comes up and calls our name to let you in. By law the customer:staff ratio in the room can not be higher than 1:1.

-All product is kept behind the counter. You have to ask the clerk to hand you anything. No "free samples", no lines and lines of dimebags like liquor bottles.

It's far closer to a pharmacy than a liquor store (or what people think of as a head shop.)