I gotta go, but I would just sum up my position by saying that since pot has been illegal, organized crime has played a big role in its distribution. That won’t go away just because marijuana became legal. I think that access to clean money would drive gangs wild. Since I don’t think corporate America will touch pot with a ten foot pole in the face of threats of boycotts from angry consumers (who boycott over much less), that leaves small time growers to compete with gangs of psycopaths over a big pile of money.
As a policy issue, legalization just isn’t the panacea that advocates are claiming it to be. There will be real consequences to legalization and they won’t all be pretty.