Sawzaw - They will do what organized criminals always do. They will shift their attention to other profit-making areas such as: prostitution, car theft, smuggling, fraud, protection rackets, crack cocaine, heroine, etc.

Your point is a pointless one. I am not trying to protect organized crime....I am trying to protect the civil rights and lives and freedom of the millions of perfectly ordinary, harmless people who use marijuana and who are NOT criminals, and I am trying to HELP the cops fight REAL crime instead of wasting their valuable time on something that simply doesn't matter.

Organized crime people can only be dealt with in two ways:

1. deprive them of a lucrative business opportunity (Remember the grand opportunity they were given by Prohibition? They were deprived of that opportunity when Prohibition was ended.)

2. prosecute them and imprison them with the full force of the law...but DON'T prosecute their victims in the ordinary public!