Tell that to the millions of (mostly black and brown) people whose lives were ruined due to possession or sale of small amounts of cannabis. I’m sure as states

Tell that to the millions of (mostly black and brown) people whose lives were ruined due to possession or sale of small amounts of cannabis. I’m sure as states legalize cannabis we’ll see a spike in crime now? Even if we agree that tough-on-crime works (I do not agree, but say I did), the way the war on drugs applied tough on crime was predominately on people of color. If you were white and sold weed you were MUCH less likely to go to jail than if you were black or latino. We could have locked up all those white weed dealers and driven the crime rate down even lower. So at very very very best the war on drugs was the right policy applied in a racist way. At very best.