I have never smoked Pot, never had the desire, to smoke pot. But several of my friends from high school are pot smokers. A friend in Florida will go out to the garage after dinner most nights, put some pot in a tiny pipe, and take two or three hits off it, then let it die. I asked one day where he got his pot, if it was part of what was being shipped across the border. No, he gets it from a close friend. She raises just enough for her own use and to give some to special friends.
Many of the people he has introduced me to while I am down there are pot smokers. Really, really nice people, just like you and me in all aspects but one. They just have that one vice, they smoke pot in the evening after dinner, just before bed. OK, I don't have a problem with that. They never try and get me to smoke it with them, but they don't hide it either. Actually how do I know many of you are not quietly smoking a bit of pot just as they do? No, I don't mean to start you guys screaming, I'm just being honest about how I see things. Personally I think most of you guys are like me and would not ever consider smokeing pot for any reason.
But the point I am trying to make here is that all the pot they smoke is locally grown. Nothing from across the border. So if we relaxed the grow laws, it just might reduce the money going to the Cartels.