You said nothing about that in the post I was replying to, which was your only post on the thread at the time. You threw that other stuff in later.
As for sticker shock, CA’s proposed taxes are not drastically out of line with other states. It is nonsense to say that legal sales will ballon the black market. Without legalization it’s all black market. Even with onerous taxes, some amount will be collected, which does not go the b.m.
From my original post, first paragraph, last sentence:
“That’s Colorado’s future work force - so the impact of pot legalization has yet to be realized in full.”
Much of my original post was responding to your assertion re “hundreds of millions in revenue to WA and CO.”
I demonstrated in my response that the revenue was offset by other costs. My second post I underscored the negligible “benefit” of revenues.