Legalizing marijuana has been an ongoing debate for some time now. There are a lot of good points to argue from both perspectives.
What do you guys think?
And do you think the government is making more money by having it illegal? Or would they make more money by taxing it as a product?
If you think about the enforcement behind it, and the money going in to prevent it, do the fines people pay cover that? Do the fines cover MORE than the costs to enforce the laws?
I haven't really looked into this. Just wondering what you guys thought about it is all.
I don't really see where it is any different than drinking. They could tax it to the hilt. Big bucks there. It would knockout the black market dealing. The drug dealers would have to get real jobs. They wouldn't have to arrest folks for using it. I would hope that employers would still have the right to test for it and not hire folks who use, if they so choose.
The smoking and driving might be tough to handle, as it stays in the system so long. I don't know what you would do with that.
I must admit I have'nt studied up on it. Just my initial thoughts.
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How can the government make money by having it illegal? The government makes money by taxing everything in sight, drugs and the (so called) war against drugs has been a drain on the economy and on the lives of so many it is not even funny. Common sense would say to make it legal and tax the crap out of it to the point where it would not be economically feasible to maintain a black market in direct competition. I do not understand the reluctance on the part of our lawmakers to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Cocaine and cocaine derivitives are legal for medical purposes as is opium and its derivitives, why not marijuana?
I have read, can't remember where, that when the drug laws were first enacted here in the U.S. that the number of drug addicts numbered about 1% of the population. Today after nearly a century of these laws being on the books and countless dollars spent trying to enforce them and countless lives ruined in that effort, the number of addicts remains at about 1% of the population. Go figure.
Would it not make more sense to legalize the use of these drugs, tax that use and use the resulting revenue to support rehabilitation programs for those that abuse them?
I am not for it, really. But if alcohol is going to be legal, marijuana might as well be also.
The only reason I would be for it is because it would in turn legalize the use of hemp to make paper products, which would perhaps eventually stop some of the clear-cutting that is ravaging our region here in East Tennessee.
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The only reason I would be for it is because it would in turn legalize the use of hemp to make paper products,
But they today can remove the thc from hemp before it is grown, they have hybred plant species that are grown just for the hemp& its products. It has no thc , none.You cant get high or anything else if theres no drug, alkalod, thc there.
But you can have the hemp products& no mary jane then , Or hog leg as bad bob calls it?
No it don't need to be legalized, you see what a problem we have with under age drinking just wait until MJ is legalized and see what our drug problem turns into, Its a proven fact that MJ leads to hard drugs, and for as the tax part of it, it would be kind of hard to tax what one can grow in his back yard. The higher the tax they put on it the more that will be privately grown and sold without tax.
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clear-cutting that is ravaging our region here in East Tennessee
clear cutting suks[>:]- unless there tyring to eradacate like pine beattles, deseases, dead trees etc they shouldnt do it. Here in the mtns i see it some ,& the left over big piles of slash( lotsa good logs too )& they burn it on site... But the ones im thinking of anyways dont own the land- we do, they just lease it.
Its a proven fact that MJ leads to hard drugs, and for as the tax part of it, it would be kind of hard to tax what one can grow in his back yard.
Nahh beer leads to all the drugs . But beer, wine, mj can all be taxed & growen, produced in your back yard.
The war on drugs is expensive, i dont think all need to be there or are the same.(or are you dealing with all the same types of ppl involved)
I think the moneys saved & taxes could be used for more inport things - like killing terriosts overseas. take out there herion& cocaine factorys they have going all over too.
Marijuana is illegal and any one that wants it can get it in about 10 minutes.Any one that wants to do it can easily obtain it so how many more would just because they make it legal.
As far as mairijuans leading to harder drugs it goes sorta like this cigs then alcohol then Marijuana then the harder stuff. So you could say the real gateway drugs are alcolhol and cigs.
It will be hard to tax something I can grow in my basement underlight or next to my Tomato's. Maybe they will require a license to grow it.
If you take the illegal profits away from Joe dealer it might help the country out.
The war on Drugs isn't working. Telling kids to just say No never worked. Putting out bogus movies like "reefer madness " didn't work either.
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