The median voter thinks that very sick people ought to have recourse to cannabis but “mere” pleasure-seekers shouldn’t.

In truth, all this will do is delay the day when we decide whether cannabis should be legal or not.

In the meantime, there will be much diversion and grow-your-own.

This is the result of thoroughgoing consequentialism.

The budget benefits, such as they are, are not likely to come from increased tax revenue but (hopefully) from reduced enforcement costs.