“Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, said the cash-starved state could generate more than a billion dollars by taxing pot growers and sellers.”
Right...most of the pot is being grown by Mexican Drug cartels by illegal aliens, but they’re going to ‘tax’ them...LOL....SF won’t even asked for status from an alien....they’ll probably give the cartels a bail out.....
Why would people buy mj from the Mexican cartels in a legal, well-regulated market?
John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html
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Let me ask you this. Is it your position that the cartels would or would not lose most of their funding if mj were regulated like alcohol?