If you tax it, you make it more expensive to produce legally, thus helping the drug cartels (or so we hear)
I’m ok with people growing for their own use but I don’t want to pay for the rainbow of new laws that would be enacted to deal with that.
For those who claim to want it legal to end cartel violence. You’re lying. If you really wanted to end the cartel violence you would quit smoking it. I did and I survived just fine. Changing laws takes years and sometimes never happens, quitting only takes an instant and achieves the same result much faster and cheaper.
Do we see organized crime rackets causing trouble by smuggling cigarettes and booze?
I'm not too sure on that.
Tobacco is being taxed real heavy, I think it's $3.75 a pack around here right now. Smokers in a lot of the US could grow their own but they don't. I think the curing foils most of them.
Marijuana can also be grown in large areas of the US - and is right now. I don't think the cost and taxes for Marijuana could be much higher than for tobacco - and libs would want to keep it as low as they could. Add in the home grown “no stamp weed” and the drug cartels should be out of business.
Good points. And if you really want to end the cartel violence, then see my previous post. You take the US Armed Forces to war against our enemies in Mexico as we take them to our enemies in Iraq and other places.
I’ll say it again. WOT, WOD... America can not surrender!!!
You need to study Prohibition. The enactment of the stupidest law ever, created a class of very wealthy and powerful criminals, and a class of very wealthy and corrupt politicians. When Prohibition was repealed, the criminals lost a huge source of income. Nevertheless, income from bootlegging enabled them to put that money to good use - they built Las Vegas. When Tennessee started enacting laws that enabled cities to regulate the legal selling of alcohol, it was the end of big time bootlegging.
My mother alway said that the only people against legal alcohol sales were preachers and bootleggers.
“For those who claim to want it legal to end cartel violence. You’re lying. If you really wanted to end the cartel violence you would quit smoking it.[pot?]”
How about an analogy.
Half of the voters who pull the D lever do so as a vote AGAINST the religious whackos currently nesting in the Republican party. If said religionists were in the Democrat party instead, those voters would leap to pull the R handle, leading to a conservative majority in Congress, leading to a reversal of the federal abortion laws.
For those who claim they want to end abortion, you’re lying. If you really wanted to end the killing you would move to the Democrat party and quit pushing away right-thinking people who would otherwise vote Republican.