‘Politicians, primarily locals, will follow their urge to protect the masses for the purpose of collecting taxes, taxes, and some more taxes, then do some additional protecting by taxes, but short of negatively affecting “legal” sales.’
Since almost all of the legalization proposals simply allow people to grow it, there is generally no tax revenue involved. That’s a good thing.
You folks ARE generally anti-tax, right? lol
Of course! This is why governments collect virtually no tax revenue from sales of alcohol and tobacco. Since people can simply brew their own beer, distill their own spirits, or grow their own tobacco, there aren't any retail sales of these products to speak of. Liquor shops and tobacconists are deserted and tumbleweed-infested, since of course nobody finds the convenience and higher quality control of commercially-manufactured products an attractive reason not to self-produce. Right?
...Dave’s not here!