“When Washington and Colorado legalized pot — with strict controls by established state agencies and a coherent tax structure — opponents weren’t able to raise the money to fight the initiatives. John Kane, a federal judge in Colorado, said in December he sees marijuana following the same path as alcohol in the 1930s. Toward the end of Prohibition, Kane explained, judges routinely dismissed violations or levied fines so trivial that prosecutors quit filing cases. ‘The law is simply going to die before it’s repealed. It will just go into disuse,’ Kane said. ‘It’s a cultural force, and you simply cannot legislate against a cultural force.'”
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