Oh, I'm not arguing that fact....but let's take California for instance: It's funny how the Feds only seem to 'crack down' after Federal Tax is collected, on ALL OF THOSE ILLEGAL DRUGS, as you put it.
I don't think you will ever understand just how ridiculous the United States of America looks until you take a step back and look at it from an outside perspective.
Remember, this is a country that during the 50s/60s had Ronald Regan (future President) campaigning against the idea of State Sponsored, or SOCIAL MEDICINE as his narrow minded propaganda script writers put it, as it ran too high a risk that a door to Communism may be opened in the process. FUCK ME.
Thankfully, the same and even more involved Social Medicine programs only existed (and still exist today) in Europe (mostly the west, other than Russia historically, in the far east of course) and because of that Britain, France and the likes are now all communist states because of it....
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS ?