Reply #57: legalize it, regulate it, and tax it. Otherwise, you are "fine" with spending $40 Billion a year to

[Warren DeMontague]

fight it.

Not to fight coke and guns, mind you. Although you're not the first to try to conflate the issues.

$40 Billion a year. Not including costs of incarceration. To keep people -some 65 million otherwise law abiding Americans, by some estimates- from smoking a relatively benign plant for recreational or medicinal purposes.

Yes, that "would need" congressional support. What would NOT need congressional support would be Obama doing what he promised to do, i.e. get the DOJ and DEA to back off the states that have legalized medical marijuana.