Comments on: Lost Marijuana Taxes by State

By: Sway

Sway — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:14 +0000

Legalizing the manufacturing, distribution and sale of marijuana only provides the FDA ample opportunity to screw up another product hitting the shelves, much like current day tobacco sales, medication, etc. Yes, it has a significant value in terms of financial gain via tax $$$, however I think it will take the attention off bigger issues that need far more attention.

By: jrp

jrp — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:39:00 +0000

huh? somebody something? what?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:53:04 +0000

P.S. I find it odd that you don’t consider illegalizing a substance to be, in effect, the most severe possible form of “regulation” — because that’s what it is, on its face; and while I can understand why you consider the government making money to be a bad thing, I can’t fathom how their losing money, throwing good money after bad, so to speak, is somehow a sounder state of affairs.

The War on Drugs is a failure, a bipartisan boondoggle of mammoth proportions, and the fact is, even mainstream conservatives have woken up to it. And no, that doesn’t mean I think the solution is easy, but in the case of pot, it’s pretty damn easy.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:45:35 +0000

I didn’t say it would lessen it per se. It wouldn’t increase it. It would also make a serious dent in the livelihood of truly evil drug cartels, but that’s another story. Guess we can just keep throwing a few billion at the Mexican government every so often … they can go buy themselves something nice with it.

By: MIssingDots

MIssingDots — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:10:33 +0000

I didn’t realize Texas existed in 1008.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:04 +0000

Get a clue? Ok, if marijuana was made legal tomorrow with the same rules as alcohol, it still wouldn’t be legal for everyone. Which means you’d still have plenty of law enforcement involved and plenty of people in jail. And now that you’ve ceded control of it to government you’ll also have multiple government agencies deciding when and where it’s produced and distributed. And on top of all that you’ve given government the power to tax it as they please and use your monies to expand it’s power as it always does. Not to mention all the other drugs that would still be illegal.

So you want to legalize pot? Fine, but saying it would lessen government intervention is nonsense.

By: OneArtDirector

OneArtDirector — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:43 +0000

I find it a little surprising that Colorado isn’t in listed in the top ten.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:21:08 +0000

Doug,

So The War on Drugs, originally created and embraced by conservatives (although zealously prosecuted bt Dem and Repub alike) is not government intervention? Would you also prefer Prohibition to the vagaries of the TABC?

Get a clue, sir.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:11 +0000

There is something very wrong about those statistics about pot vs. violent crime. Killers and rapists are wandering the streets while stoners rot in jail? This is helping what, exactly?

By: matt

matt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:58:02 +0000

@Doug

I think regulation is far less intrusive than prohibition and the over-policing and billions of waste that go along with the governments failing “war” on drugs.