Starmistkarmic on 08 July 2008
| rudyrsr8 said: Legalize, regulate, tax lol |
That's what I was gonna post!. The national debt would be wiped out overnight! j/k But it would be a lot in revenue. I'm an occasional user(I smoke it if offered, but don't buy) and I'd like to see it legalized and regulated identically to how alcohol is regulated(same DUI laws, 21 ond over to partake, etc.) The could sell 'em in package stores and specialty bars and the like. It won't happen, however. The drug companies and their lobby would never let it. They'd lose hundreds of millions from the loss of aspirin sales alone, not to mention the thousands per week/per patient in cancer pain relief cocktails. Of, course, it' not just the drug companies. They're just an example. There's so much good that marijuana could do: the police wouldn't have to waste their time with petty stuff, prisons could lose a large portion of their population of people who don't deserve to be there anyway, etc. This would save the government money while high taxation on marijuana would go to pay for other necessary thing. But, alas, the moneyed interests would never let that happen. **if it ever does happen, though, buy stock in whoever owns Cheeto's.
