Possible Problems with Pot

Over at Consumer Affairs I have a slightly tongue-in-cheek but mainly serious piece up discussing possible problems with imminent marijuana legalization:

American anti-drug laws (or, rather, those who enforce them) have long since abandoned the quaint old notion of “innocent until proven guilty”—if there’s any illicit plant matter in your vicinity, cops automatically assume you are, at minimum, Pablo Escobar 2.0 [....] terrorizing innocent families and murdering their pets is a small price to pay in exchange for making marijuana slightly more difficult for determined smokers to buy.