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The state from what I am told wants to tax the drugs, think they said it was going to be 15%.
Doesn;t make sense as the argument for making this drug legal was to get rid of the drug dealer.

So if say dope smoker wants his or her drugs then of course they will go to the drug dealer where it is cheaper and where the drug dealer does not tax.

The left again and their stupidity.

The road to Hell is paved with the good intentions of bureaucrats and politicians. And unintended consequences are just that, and, in this case, whimsically unintended. Effin' Revenuer liberals.

I live in Seattle and I don't believe that tens of thousands of pot virgins have now, with the passage of legalizing pot, lost their pot virginity. If you smoked it before (teenager or adult), you're still smoking it afterwards. And, if you didn't smoke it before, you're not likely to begin to smoke it, simply because you can buy it from State-approved sources, when it was readily available from friends and family. Of course, as in everything, there will be exceptions.

Now it is simply in the open, and you can smoke it and sell it openly, without undue fear of the Man. The State simply wanted to tax pot. Revenuers. Whether or not one falls into the "Pot is evil/addictive" category or "Pot is harmless" category, didn't matter to the politicians and revenuers in Olympia; they just wanted another tax source. And now they have it. The War on Drugs is an abject, horribly wasteful, and tragic failure for generations of Americans. And legalizing pot is a lame attempt by politicians to justify taxing one more thing (if you can't beat drugs, may as well tax 'em).

But it remains to be seen, whether the State can take in enough tax 'revenue' to offset/justify the real human damage caused by accidents/injuries/violence from pot smokers/drivers. And whether the State has insulated/exempted themselves from possible liability lawsuits (probably).

I think the novelty of openly smoking pot will wear off, sooner rather than later, just as alcohol did when we were teenagers. The illegality of the thing made it interesting and edgy; but too ready access ends up making it boring, and people will move on to the next thing that titillates them.

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