I could say "gasoline was once 20 cents a gallon, until the Federal and State governments realized what a cash cow gas was", but instead of making sense I'll play your game: No, I'm not thick-headed or simply dishonest, but YOU ARE! I can't help it if you're too stoned to see the brilliance of my logic!
You're one or the other. You said "regulate like alcohol", then you argue a position in which mj is not regulated like alcohol.
There were only two reasons than marijuana was prohibited in 1937, to protect the renewed alcoholic beverage industry from competition and to protect the tax revenue from alcohol sales from marijuana home growers who required much less capital to do so than the illegal brewers on whom they could concentrate law enforcement manpower.
Are you thick headed, or simply giving a dishonest argument?
I could say "gasoline was once 20 cents a gallon, until the Federal and State governments realized what a cash cow gas was", but instead of making sense I'll play your game: No, I'm not thick-headed or simply dishonest, but YOU ARE! I can't help it if you're too stoned to see the brilliance of my logic.
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Hate to sound like broken record, but, once again
we concur.
If anything, marijuana would be taxed like cigarettes. And, as with cigarettes, this high tax imposed by ALL levels of government would drive the product back underground to the drug dealers who are selling all the other drugs that remain illegal.