Ah yes. A new revenue source. Gots to feed the beast. How about legalize it and call it a day?
That’s fine too.
The reasoning behind “legalize, tax, regulate” is that it would seem to do more to legitimize the post-legalization distribution system of marijuana. Legalize in this manner and the major players....tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals....with their ready made production, warehousing, and, distribution systems for just such a product would seemingly have the advantage in the marketing of the new legal product verses for example Mexican cartels attempting to become “legit” to try to market the product.
I have no huge problem paying taxes on a recreational substances like this. We do for alcohol and tobacco already. May be a separate discussion, but, either we pay taxes for such substances or we don’t. Across the board. And I’m a big fan of alcohol and I (though slowly quitting) smoke, so, I’m already paying them all the time.