I have pretty much changed my mind about legalizing weed.
Americans don't seem to be handling weed very well.
I have done the same, and it's all because of one data point I have mentioned here before: Ontario, OR. What a shithole that town has become since the pot shops showed up. A place where you used to be able to leave your car unlocked with the keys in it is now a place where I always lock my car, and in many parts, do a scan before I get in or out of my vehicle in the parking lot. It all happened in four short years.
Admittedly, one reason is likely the fact that it's an Idaho border town, and the majority of plates in the pot shop lots are Idaho plates. Also partially because Eastern OR is super conservative and no one there (except the people who moved there after legal pot) is smoking pot. The pot shops brought undesirables in. They also brought in booming business from a bordering state, which brought in more pot shops, which brought in more undesirables.
Maybe national pot legalization would keep that from happening, or at least diffuse the bad element, but what I've seen at that one location has really soured me on legal pot. Seems like it was a much nicer town when the drug dealers were breaking the law.