High taxes are simply a partial prohibition, which create the same time of problems that total prohibition causes: smuggling, gangs, violence and corruption. Marijuana Prohibition was at first just a prohibitive tax, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. That's why it's the 'revenuers', who enforce these idiotic laws.
The terrorists attacked our freedom. Let's get our freedom back, end drug prohibition and high tobacco taxes. Strike a blow against terrorists.