RE:CURRENT REALITIESHold on a sec there Star, with governemnt debt ready to implode smart money will flee from public to private - mainly in the form of bonds to stocks. Bond market is 20 times the size of the stock market - image the inflows!
Secondly, with interest rates rising and big government needing revenue to make payments it would be the most opportune time to legalize and get a share of the proverbial pie (280e)
Same reason why moonshine prohibition ended during the great depression.