will the US see legalized weed soon?

Im all for legalizing weed... so many people smoke weed, and there gonna do it if its legal or not, so y not legalize it? i think that the government would make a killing off sellin it... legalize weed and watch our countries debt decrease, haha.... WHAT DO U THINK? SHOULD THEY LEGALIZE WEED?

via NewsWeek:

Marijuana carries the least amount of overhead cost for many of the [MEXICAN] cartels and provides some of their cash flow for buying guns and influence. Estimates vary, but analysts say pot accounts for somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 percent of the cartels’ profits. But that could soon change with competition from El Norte: California has a proposition set for the November ballot—on which voters are roughly split—that would legalize the drug’s domestic production and sale. If the measure passes, says a recent analysis by the RAND Corporation, California could become a major supplier of the drug to the rest of the U.S. That, according to George W. Grayson, a professor of government at William & Mary, “would hurt the cartels badly.” RAND estimates that it could reduce the drug’s pretax price by more than 80 percent.