There were a lot of pot-smoking burglars and robbers behind bars, but only about 2 percent of inmates were in prison solely for marijuana offenses, and most of those were traffickers or their employees.

Remember how we were supposed to believe that half the people in jail were black and brown men arrested for having a joint? So now that it's legalized, shouldn't that mean all the jails are half-empty now? I guess it's too much to expect potheads to remember what they believed a few years ago or be capable of logical reasoning.

Another big lie that the drug dealer lobby loves to push is that banning something doesn't actually reduce consumption. They point out that everyone still drank just as much during Prohibition. Except that's total bullshit. Alcohol use fell dramatically. It turns out that when you sell something in a shop on every street corner consumption goes up.