Absolutely yes. It makes you stupid but it's none of the government's business what we smoke or eat or drink or shoot up.

 

Yes... then we can tax the bejeezus out of it. Pot smokers likely wouldn't mind as it would still be cheaper than the underground ish is now.

-Chris

 

I agree 100%.

I believe it could settle a lot of our problems via high tariffs, tax and management.

Just pot (and maybe shrooms) though... the rest should be illegal as far as I’m concerned.

 

Werd. You could sell a pack of blunts for $50 bucks and they would go like hotcakes, and given the amount of pot smokers in this country, which is a good 35% over what anyone would guess, it would be quite good for our economy. The fact that alchohol is totally legal and weed isn't is forever going to be a mystery to me. Other than alchohol is a depressant and weed is a psychoactive/depressant/stimulant/magical mystery bush.
Even if it was legal i'd still not smoke it, but for christs sake when are people going to realize that its not worth sending people to jail for?

 

The tax revenue argument only works if you assume it is illegal to grow it, but not possess it. Pot is far easier to grow than beer is to brew or liquor is to distill.

Even with minimal incremental tax revenue, the economic affect would be quite large - you would no longer be spending money enforcing the prohibition, you would free up prison space and you would no longer be incarcerating people which hold jobs and pay their taxes.

The only rational argument I've heard in favor of illegal dope is that it is more difficult to prove if a person is under the influence of the stuff when they get pulled over.

 

this is a topic that does not need to be discussed anymore. Smoke weed if you like and use disearnment.

 

Werd, i think we are all on the same page here - we could bring helladumb out of his carbonite shell and get him to fight it, but....meh, whats the use - salty's back, we have him to keep us occupied and at least it's intelligent useless banter.

 

Wouldn't be any need for taxes. It's a weed. You can grow it in a pot on your back porch and have enough to smoke for months.

 

Yeah, but if that principle worked then there would be no, say, tomato market. If people are lazy enough NOT to grow their own, then tax 'em! Sadly, i don't think the government would allow people to grow it, because it would cut in on their tax. Just like people who are running vegetable oil cars are getting nabbed for "tax evasion".

 

Thank you, Constellation, you took the words right out of my mouth.

-Chris

 

Although I gave up a daily smoking habit about four years ago, I am all for legalization.

But I cant imagine it happening. With the draconian War on Drugs, our govt can subjectively incarcerate a whole butt-load of people. Incarceration is big business... and those bastards have some hefty lobbyists puoshing for more and more jails (where are all the new schools one might ask?)

Furthermore, if pot were legal, law officials would lose their footing when it came to home / car searches, property seizure, and myriad other things.

While these statements might seem outrageous to some, few can argue that it does not deserve to be classified as a Scedule I drug... that is simply rediculous

 

The worst part about the fact that pot is illegal is the original reason for it being illegal; it was a way for the gov't to pick on minority groups (African Americans in the Jazz movement first, then immegrant Mexican laborors later). Now it's illegal for the same reason we've never had a non-christian president...it just is. What's funny to me is that, even though punishments are higher, cocaine is less illegal than pot because it's still used as an anestethic in eye surgeries. California and a few other states are on the right track in terms of the reefer, but I'm affraid the Governator, BushJr, and the whole GOP-is-cool-again thing will set the cause back...check out www.NORML.org for more good info about pot and how YOU can help the cause hehehe.
BTW, props to Salty for being a pro-pot Republican...

 

wow, one thing we can all agree on! who'da thunk it possible?