Marijuana and your health

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FaRmLaNd on 16 April 2010

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There would be no point in taxing it because it would just mean it would be cheaper to buy it illegally (Presuming we're talking about controlled legalisation, where you can only buy it and smoke it in certain places and certain grades of skunk are illegalised) and would null the point of legalising it in the first place, Make it tax free to begin with in order to outprice and destroy the illegal market then gradually put a tax on at a rate which keeps it below the price illegal traders can afford to sell at. Combine this with laws to heavily punish people selling it to children and importing skunk and other thing that government would want to control and you should have a decent system. Another Idea might be to nationalise the drug industry and control it that way (I would be in favour of this option).

Thats an interesting point. Even if it wasn't taxed it would bring a lot of money into the legitimate economy however.

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Chairman-Mao on 16 April 2010

FaRmLaNd said:

Chairman-Mao said:

KingFate said:

Chairman-Mao said:
Yes it does.

The only people who say it doesn't have any negative affects are people who smoke it and want it to be legalized.

I don't smoke it, but I want it to be legalized(but that is another topic entirely.)

If you don't smoke it, why would you want it legalized?

Its not a bad idea since people smoke it anyways, but if we legalize it the government can control it more effectively and get lots of tax from it.

Thats exactly why I want it legalised. It will bring in a lot of tax revenue and because the substance would be more standardised then it would become safer then it currently is. Though thats not a huge problem with marijuana anyway since its less harmful then many legal drugs. But taking money away from the drug cartels and putting it into the hands of legitimate businesses and the government is preferable in my mind.

Good call dude. It would bring in a ton of tax dollars if the government controlled it.