DEA Agents Are Told To Cover Up Spying Program Used Against Americans

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45. Alcohol is "hard stuff" by those standards

Seriously, it's right up there with heroin and cocaine, physically addictive, substantially mind altering, sometimes deadly and physically deteriorating in quantity over time.

If you want to continue the drug war even without pot there are going to be cartels and all the inevitable trappings of prohibition.

We were smart enough to get rid of alcohol prohibition in only thirteen years but the difference was immediately obvious, things got worse not better after the Volstead Act was passed and people could see it in their own neighborhoods.

ETA: One more point; Those other drugs are much more compact, value for value, than cannabis or alcohol and hence much easier to smuggle. This means that finding and stopping the use of those drugs is necessarily going to be even more intrusive than the search for pot.