>William does bring up a good point though - where do you draw the line? If you legalize weed, what about cocaine and other drugs?

Here's the Portland story:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/11/oregon-county-decriminalizes-heroin-meth-cocaine-shoplifting/

"The district attorney in Multnomah County, the state's most populous area with over 710,000 residents, announced recently that it can no longer prosecute dozens of crimes thanks to an ever-shrinking budget.

Caught with small amounts of heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine? It's a ticket. So's a hit-and-run accident. Small-time shoplifting? You'll still get arrested, but it's still just a violation.

For these and other lesser crimes, the district attorney will simply refuse to prosecute."