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So your implied response is that this tax is a "good" and "Just" tax as it adds additional penalties to those whom use illegal drugs.

I can see where it would work. However,

the creation of laws that are sneaky or ill defined or surreptitious in NATURE, should NOT be the ways our laws are constructed and implemented. Why can't the punishment for a illegal drug crime be what the laws on the books says it is? Doesn't the fees involved eventually go into the State Treasury anyways?

I am not advocating the change in the Drug laws, as I have friends who now have their lives ruined because of their abuse of drugs. This is nothing to wax theoretically about. I applaud the efforts by those who mean well and are "thinking outside of the box". Some times difficult problems require fresh solutions.

But, my issue really boils down to this:

(1)....Thank you for explaining WHY these laws are in place.
(2)....Why can't a law be simple and direct and plain and easy to understand? Why does it have to be so obscure and compiled as a stratagem?

While our founding fathers would of had a more Libertarian view towards the entire Drug situation, this does not betray the true nature of the laws in this country. We need and must have clear and direct access to the understanding and nature of our laws. This is of prime fundamental importance. Failure to keep that in mind will only result in a Pyrrhic Victory in the war on drugs.

One who's tecniques to obtain the end result would shread the main principles of our Judical system.