State siezure of the free market system

[leilanidude]

I read some articles about Colorado's issues with regulating/enforcing their laws. Essentially, a decent chunk of the permits/fees/taxes has been used to create entire new state government agencies to deal with it. I sincerely doubt that Hawaii would do better on the regulation costs. While Colorado has created a legal market and taxed the products, by doing so, the legalization/taxation has done exactly what critics said would happen. The price of legal/taxed product has gone way up creating even higher demand for black market products which have also gone up in price. The real winners are those in the cartels, who were never going to pay taxes anyway.

[Rattlestaff]

This is just the beginning. Every state eventually will be involved at some level, then the fed gov will become involved. Then one day it will be tested,scrutinized, studied,different compounds used for different medicine all under of course the federal gov and FDA. But until then there will be mistakes like what Hawaii is purposing.
Why worry bout pot here anyway it will go on here regulated or not.
Is this not the meth capitol of the world? Shouldn't that be the area of concern?