Tools

Our current laws regarding the use of marijuana involves sanctions for people who use marijuana illegally (without a medical marijuana license).  For many years it has been clear to the American people that if you use marijuana illegally, and are detected  by a law enforcement officer of a kind, that you will have negative consequences (fines, probation, jail).  Inducements would solve many problems regarding the recreational use of marijuana.  By inducing such behavior all citizens could gain from the use of marijuana.  I'm not inferring that marijuana users are the ones necessarily being rewarded for using marijuana, though we can't forget exercising civil liberties, but as previously mentioned everyone would benefit from the taxes that would be levied on the good.  This brings me to my idea that regulatory tools would best suit my policy issue.
We are already spending way too much taxpayer money regulating the use of marijuana, so regulating the legal use of marijuana would cut back on these costs.  However you may ask yourself, what would be the conflict of legalizing marijuana?  The answer is people would be only be causing harm to themselves (as if alcohol doesn't cause harm to oneself?) not to mention that we are currently causing harm on every American citizen who has the burden of paying for sanctions against marijuana users.  By regulating the recreational use of marijuana, both groups would benefit from the results.