Just more "raise the taxes" bs.
Look how much money they are wasting now though with little to show for it. Personally, I'm dead set against legalizing anything other than marijuana, but legalizing that alone would save us several billions of dollars a year and the tax revenues would be enough to cover the costs of regulating the industry and a lot more. Our government spends more money than it brings in. We need for them to stop wasting so much money, but they also need tax revenues keep operating. Realistically we are not going to see government spending shrink so much that they are able to bring in more money then they spend unless drastic measures are taken. This is one of many that needs to be done. The hard stuff is too prone to causing us lots of problems for us to legalize it, but when we take marijuana out of the black market for illegal drugs it is going to be tiny compared to what we have today, much less of a problem. We'll probably generate enough money from taxing marijuana to cover the cost of regulating it and the cost of fighting against the other drugs, and then some.