I have taken note of a few failures with legalization in Colorado and Washington. First is in Colorado baking it into candy that children are attracted to and getting their hands on and the rising number hospitals having to deal with adults who ingested too much weed bought as baked goods.
In Washington the big enormous flaw is keeping it against the law to grow your own. In Colorado you are allowed 6 plants per person. Which is about perfect for a year’s supply. This is the main problem I see in all this, an American lazy problem. All you have to do is take a couple days to read a book or Google the internet to learn the grow, and you have free pot for the rest of your life. And I see no articles, no stories, no push or shove about that at all from anywhere. At state run stores an ounce is running close to $500, a joint everyday after work is about a once a month, or $6000 a year, compared to $0 a year. What I am missing? Are we truly so helpless and lazy?
The overall flaw in both states is that the legal stuff is about twice as expensive as street prices. So there are two competing markets. Perhaps they will eventually bring the cost down to reasonable. Here in Texas commercial Mexican runs about $70 an ounce. About that it was 30 years ago.
For most of 50 years now I have thought the best way in dealing with marijuana is to allow anyone to grow their own to either use or give away while keeping it a crime to sell or profit. But the States want to make money more than they want to solve the crime problem.