Medical marijuana yes, physician-assisted suicide no

particularly about the court system effects, but legal weed takes the actual operations out of the hands of the kids on the corner, and into a business which needs to be run as such. Their supplier will probably not be part of the system either, so now they're faced with red tape, taxes, and a whole new distribution model.

With that, they'll likely want to stay in the black or grey side of the market, and their customers will all go line up for prescriptions and with that, legitimacy. The dealers are then effectively shut out of the legal market, save those who are presumptuous enough and ambitious enough to legitimize themselves. Right now the amount of MJ that's grown in state and sold at retail (not talking about the kid with a plant in the basement for personal use... cant really know how many of them there are) has got to be extremely low, just based on the small amount of reportage I see on grow houses being busted. Stinky pot farms are hard to hide and make great news when they're busted.

If this were California, I would say the dealers could straighten themselves out, but here the supply is all out-of-state. The new system I think is going to require in-state grow/manufacture/processing, to stay far afield from the DEA and their inter-state trafficking laws. Therefore, local black market dealers will be shut out of the market for those in society who would want to be lawful in their consumption.

This is a good thing, and in regards to my flip comment above about Lawrence being against it, I was just being snide. I don't think that the weed dealer demographic is large enough to swing Lawrence against medical MJ (at least I hope not). What could be going on is that cities with larger than average drug problems, which Lawrence clearly is, are possibly more risk averse when it comes to legalization. Or perhaps another demographic was in play: perhaps the Catholic diocese in Lawrence came out against it.

weed dealers care more about costs, than profits.

High risk, high reward in the black market drives them. You also get police knocking down supply/competition every few months. Ultimately it's a economic issue.

Same reason entrenched medical growers in CA are against legalization now. They like their high margins and "protected status" via current law.

I'm coming to the conclusion we need to legalize the harmless stuff, decriminalize the hard stuff, and just up sentencing for OUI violent crime. Get high, keep to yourself, and don't get violent or grabby with ppls personal stuff; and what the hell do I care. You'll devastate the financial vehicles that drive the worst gangs, cartels and organized crime.