Thread: Legalize Pot... ?

Hey gents. Just read this story, it's short.

Legalising marijuana: The view from Mexico | The Economist

What do you think? Smoker or not...

Wouldn't it be nice to have a resource for tax revenue that would allow the unrealistic taxes being imposed on Cigar tobacco to be left alone..........just sayin...........

Originally Posted by Lynn

Wouldn't it be nice to have a resource for tax revenue that would allow the unrealistic taxes being imposed on Cigar tobacco to be left alone..........just sayin...........

Isn't Missouri about to raise taxes on tobacco products?

I believe marijuana should be legalized with the same controls as alcohol. Local sheriff's and the Fed's and local police
waste huge amounts of money just in Kali alone each year chasing down the fields all over the state. Just seeing those resources go to more effort to curb meth labs, crack dealers, heroin dealers and more pursuit of import of all of these
street drugs. When I worked for the irrigation District here in Merced County meth lab dumps in the canal systems was
happening several times a week.
Anyway just my two cents.

Originally Posted by lz6

I believe marijuana should be legalized with the same controls as alcohol.

OK, but provided that -- as with alcohol -- an individual can grow cannabis freely, for his/her personal/family use. More than, let's say one-pound per/month, would constitute commercial use, and require whatever licensing/fees/etc. that the law requires for commercial-quantity home-brew (beer, wine, mead, spirits, etc.)

The money that the government could raise by legalizing pot would go a ways toward helping fix the fiscal mess in this country. Not to mention the economic boost of the farmers who could now legally grow to bolster and expand an ever growing hemp textile industry.

Originally Posted by Theseus

The money that the government could raise by legalizing pot would go a ways toward helping fix the fiscal mess in this country. Not to mention the economic boost of the farmers who could now legally grow to bolster and expand an ever growing hemp textile industry.

Uhhh, no. That might be "symptomatic relief" for an ailing economy, but what we need is to solve the core issues, in-and-of themselves: unfunded wars and a bloated military, together with virtually untaxed and/or mis-taxed corporate profits and profiteering. Taxing marijuana, without fixing the "real" issues, is just one more way of taking money from US citizens without giving us anything in return.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Uhhh, no. That might be "symptomatic relief" for an ailing economy, but what we need is to solve the core issues, in-and-of themselves: unfunded wars and a bloated military, together with virtually untaxed and/or mis-taxed corporate profits and profiteering. Taxing marijuana, without fixing the "real" issues, is just one more way of taking money from US citizens without giving us anything in return.

I never said it would be a be all end all fix, but the money made by legalization and the money saved by decriminalization, along with the economic boost in other industries would certainly make an impact if not a significant impact.

Make legal every currant illicit drug known to man,than the criminal eliments of selling it will be gone along with the profits for the bad guys.
Tax the crap out of it like booze and cigs which are far more dangerous than USP heroin.But first and formost,allow people to make ther own decisions on how to navigate there own lives.

Yes legalize, if you say otherwise come visit my local pub on Friday night and see what the current legal stimulant does to people.


Eric