Posted on 10/10/2014 10:53:02 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
The only reason it hasn’t is because alcohol is much harder for the average citizen to produce than MJ. To grow pot you need seeds, dirt and water. Distillation of alcohol is a much dicier proposition. The Feds could never control pot growers. They can’t do it now. What is one more law going to do for them?
Alcohol possession carries all kinds of penalties for adults.
Public consumption, open container, PI, DWI, bringing into an establishment that sells it, etc.
addiction treatment and research centre is addicted to marijuana
The stupidity center concurred with this assessment.
Colorado only got 1/3 the taxes promised because the pushers charge lower prices and they pay no taxes leaving tax payers to pay for accidents and drug enforcement that was promised out of the taxes. Emergency rooms are having much more overdose patients because of the unknown doses users are taking. It is a mess.
“We, like, uh, smoked alotta stuff to come up with this paper man.” -said center..
“Just one more law” works so very well for keeping strict limitations on gun ownership as a means to prevent criminals from obtaining projectile weapons.
I’m quite certain that this addiction center’s advocacy for Pot has absolutely no profit motives whatsoever.
Hard to see a difference here between their “advocacy” and the advocacy of a common neighborhood dealer in front of a school yard.
Another reason is control. Once the government gets control of something it is practically impossible to regain that control.
And here you are again, pushing drugs.
Over dose on Pot? Now you are being silly. Pot should stay illegal as the gov always makes a mess.
can you say new tax monies?
Actually, DWI accidents have gone down since marijuana was legalized in Colorado. And they have gotten far more in taxes than they thought.
Pushers? What are you, like 90?
They set the regulatory cost bar too high. That can be corrected. It's also a problem because they are early adopters, and attract more than steady-state traffic (pun noted).
"The organization also predicted that drug trafficking revenues would fall 20 to 30 percent, and the Sinaloa cartel, which would be the most affected, would lose up to 50 percent.""Faced with such losses, the violent cartels could force their way in as black market wholesalers or simply rob pot dispensaries, which take only cash and have not been able to establish accounts with banks because of lenders' fears of violating federal laws. "
Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1996-12-12/feature2.html/page1.html“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”
So what would he do?
“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”
DENVER (CBS4) – High hopes for tax money isn’t as expected as the state’s legal marijuana industry isn’t bringing in as much money as anticipated. In fact, tax revenue is way below expectations.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/09/02/recreational-pot-not-bringing-in-tax-money-that-was-expected/
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