I hope it works out better for them than it did for California. Illegal pot shops are popping up all over Chula Vista because Sacramento never met an industry it didn’t want to tax and regulate to death.
I don’t have a problem with legalization per se. The problem is it is never JUST about legalizing marijuana. Marijuana legalization is always accompanied by a panoply of leftist social programs like reparations to “communities most impacted by the drug war” (whites arrested for marijuana possession are on their own) and defunding the police.
There is also the fact that California’s roads are still riddled with potholes and her schools remain dead last in the nation. Wherever the marijuana money’s going it ain’t going back to We the People. They promised us the moon in order to get us nonusers on board and so far have failed to deliver.
Hopefully Virginians are smarter about it than California has been.
No question that it's possible to do legalization wrong. But alcohol taxes haven't generated a significant black market in that drug - so it can be done right.
I don’t have a problem with legalization per se. The problem is it is never JUST about legalizing marijuana. Marijuana legalization is always accompanied by a panoply of leftist social programs like reparations to “communities most impacted by the drug war” (whites arrested for marijuana possession are on their own) and defunding the police.
That does seem to be common. But it's not like they'd drop those ideas if legalization failed.
There is also the fact that California’s roads are still riddled with potholes and her schools remain dead last in the nation. Wherever the marijuana money’s going it ain’t going back to We the People. They promised us the moon in order to get us nonusers on board and so far have failed to deliver.
Tax revenue, and the promise of its responsible use, shouldn't be any conservative's reason to support legalization; it's about treating adults like adults, and taking sales out of criminal coffers.