More so than does your side. To hear your side tell it, paradise merely awaits the legalization of all narcotics.
Well no. What we can expect is something similar to what alcohol prohibition did. Plus a little more
1. An end to prohibition violence
2. An end to gangs focused on distribution
3. An end to prohibition violators prisons
4. An end to family destruction from long prohibition violation sentencing
5. The end of incentives for police to focus on prohibition enforcement
6. The end of arbitrary property confiscations in the name of prohibition
7. The rate of crime clearance by police might go back to what it used to be before they focused on prohibition
8. At least a half a trillion dollars a year in medical savings from taking full advantage of cannabinoid medicine
I probably left a few things out. All prohibition has done is add a crime and violence problem to a substance use problem. And compared to alcohol it isn't much of a substance problem. Indications are that if we could switch people who had an alcohol problem to pot we'd save money and cut down on traffic fatalities.
Not to mention denying medicine to millions. Which is a crime against humanity. Personally I'd like to see prohibitionists brought up on charges for crimes against humanity. But there are too many of them. Once criminality reaches a certain proportion it is useless to prosecute them.
BTW - is this guy's claim of "pot made me do it" verified? How do we know pot didn't turn him into a bat and as a bat he had no control? After all we have the sworn testimony of a government expert that proved pot turned the expert into a bat. Why would a government expert lie to you? Well I guess when it comes to government you have no choice but to trust them.