Pot taxes, cigarette taxes, and lotteries all tax the poor the most, to pay for toys like bicycle trails predominantly used by, or programs administered by, the rich. This is how the lilly white gentry class operates. No longer getting rent from peasant farmers, they get their "rent" from guaranteed funding sources from the government.
A classic example of this regressive redistribution is in Georgia where the profits from the state-run lottery are used to fund free tuition for upper-middle class college kids.
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“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.”