Quoting Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au):
for cannabis, it is. in some states. but there's still cocaine and amphetamines and heroin and ecstacy and lsd and others to provide a plentiful supply of slave labor in privatised prisons.
One step at a time. Cannabis has been the huge money-maker for the police departments and prison industries, so the police departments of states that propose legalising marijuana issue dire warnings of disaster: When voters pass reform anyway and disaster does _not_ follow, people have finally started noticing they've been lied to, and the movement gains momentum with each counterexample. The voters are also starting to see through the civil forfeiture scam. In infer that the next battleground will be opiates, judging by the Establishment campaign to convince people there's an 'epidemic' of prescription pain reliever abuse that must be controlled.
sort of. except for the fact that libertarianism is an ideology pushed by corporations and the mega-rich because it suits their interests for the vast bulk of the cretinous and credulous populace to believe that they'll be better off if they bend over to be fucked by corporations in the name of "Liberty"
With very little effect except possibly shifting the Overton Window. (You might appreciate my standard joke that Americans favour moderate republicans like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.)