People will be concerned about public intoxication, disorderly behavior, and driving under the influence of drugs. Those can be real harms and police have tools to sanction such behavior. But, as Michael Reznicek points out, legalization opens the door to the possibility of reasserting informal social controls on problem behavior.61 By bringing drug use out of the shadows, families, friends, and others will be in a stronger position to set limits on the behavior of users.
