Legalize marijuana. Keep the taxes minimal so that legal production and distribution makes black market pot unprofitable.
Legalize it, tax the sh!t out of it. Make users sign an agreement that they realize that they are voluntarily partaking in an activity that could lead to harder drugs that can and will result in addiction, and therefore waive any and all rights to sue the state and/or receive any drug addiction treatment at the expense of the state.
Well then the cartels will go belly up and the government won’t get to blame guns for all the violence they commit.
Also they might have to lay off DEA agents and other government employees.
A side note: I’ve been in CO the last two weeks on vacation and it’s still the same as ever. Society hasn’t fallen apart.
If it does it won’t be because of weed, it will be because of the idiots like Hickenlooper and company.
I’ve spoken with a lot of people here that don’t smoke marijuana but voted to legalize.
Their view is more libertarian (lower case l), and a lot of them hate Obozo and are voting against Udal in November.
It’s a unique state for sure.
Legalizing marijuana has not stopped the black market in Colorado. Why would it work nationwide. You may hurt the profit margin of the Cartels but a smaller return on investment is still a profit.
Yup, I agree. I’m a radical when it comes to drug legalization. Legalize it all. All of it. And I don’t mean put the government in charge of manufacture, sale and distribution. Let private enterprise do it. If RJ Reynolds or Seagrams doesn’t want I doubt the dealers will want to continue in an industry where previously the only taxes they had to pay were bribes. “Think of the children’’ is the cry for continued illegality(among others). Does anyone think drug dealers ask for id?
Another pothead heard from. Probably born after the same scam was sold about tobacco.
How did that work out, skippy?