"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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Mark responds:

David Hall wrote:

Aren't we at least trying to do that already? Another one of the
reasons
alcohol and tobacco will never be banned is the amount of money the 2
substances bring in to various governments. If marijuana brought in a
similar
amount, it would be on sale at all convenience stores.

Charlie Self


Comon, Charlie. If pot and other "recreational drugs" were legalized,
regulated
and taxed like booze the amount of tax dollars would be staggering.


Yes, it would.

At least till the private crop came in.

Yeah, and I'll bet that is one of the considerations, too. Tobacco needs
prcoessing for use, as does alcohol. Pot needs drying, period. Hard to
stop
private growth if it's legal.

Moreover, consider all of the money/spending that occurs around the drug
trade presently. Yeah, a good chunk of it prolly goes outside our borders,
but a bunch of it stays here (speaking from a USA standpoint). That that
goes outside our borders is prolly used to buy weapons from the U.S.

Legalize dope and you'll see fewer Escalades and Uzis in the 'hoods... that
part of the economy will tank, along with jobs used to create those
Escalades and Uzis, etc. So now we are talking gov't. subsidies to the
economy to offset loss of drug money. Will it balance?