I know this may ruffle some feathers around here, but I’ve always been for legalizing pot. It seems a bit hypocritical to me for society to have a bar/liquor store every other block but waste so much time and cost on busting people who smoke marijuana.
As far as the tax base goes, however, I agree...this will not be a good source of future tax earnings.
The difference between going to the store and buying liquor and buying pot is, you need to treat the pot the same as liquor.
The problem I see, is the ones buying the pot will ‘light up’ as soon as they get it, just like cigarettes.
Laws need to apply equally to pot and liquor.
If you can’t drink the liquor on the street legally, then you shouldn’t be able to smoke the pot either.
Public intoxication and DWI would be defined for both, with the same penalties.