The new law creates no real protection or respectabilty for such establishments, and police have forced their closure

Obama Administration Considers Marijuana To Be Just As Dangerous As Heroin which is false. They don’t have to completely legalize marijuana or any drug to resolve this problem. The drug war will end if the government just regulate the use of illegal drugs. In 1937 the F.D Roosevelt administration crafted 1937 Marihuana Tax Act the first national US law making cannabis possession illegal in the US via an unpayable tax on the drug