“Here we go again with another diatribe by Sheila Polk and friends against the legalization of marijuana.”
— From a letter to the editor, The Arizona Republic, April 5, 2016
She was the lightning rod of the marijuana debate in Arizona.
The fussbudget who warned that America’s march to legalizing recreational pot would court real trouble.
She said we would popularize a drug that had become far more potent than the 1990s marijuana that Bill Clinton never inhaled.
And she said this new and more dangerous cannabis would pose a unique threat to young people.
Sheila Polk was right. We were fools
While supporters crowed that legalization would finally crush the marijuana black market, she pushed back. To the contrary, she said, the black market will thrive.
The year was 2016, and Sheila Polk, then the Yavapai County attorney, had become the most visible leader of the state’s anti-legalization movement.
She was the killjoy at the garden party. The castor oil in the punch bowl.
She was the most obstinate and annoying barrier between Arizonans and their party weed.
And now it turns out, she was right.
We were fools to legalize marijuana.
Legal weed is not what we thought
The evidence has been building nationally that not only is marijuana far more dangerous than Americans understood, but that it may, in fact, be impossible to legalize, whether we want to or not.
In California, for instance, legalization has created the largest black market for the drug that state has ever…
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