FFS we agree on something.
Now how about the actual substance. Do you agree that it should be legalized, regulated, and taxed?
I know you asked Londo but here is my view.
Pot should be legalized, not heavily regulated and not taxed.
- Taxation is regressive. The effect of taxes on goods and services is an attempt to diminish and/or restrict the use by consumers of those goods and services being taxed, e.g. alcohol, cigarette taxes, and the pot tax which was the catalyst for pot being made illegal, etc.
In addition a pot on tax will not solve the long term budget crisis that states of the federal government faces due to overspending. Our nations/states budgetary problems are not a revenue issue but a issue with politicians spending like drunken sailors or bored, shopaholic housewives.
- Heavy regulations on pot would reduce the number players who could participate in market for growing, selling and distributing pot on the retail market and in effect heavy regulations act similar to taxes in that they increase the cost of goods and services and thus help to restrict potential base of consumers and producers in the market who could afford to buy or sell pot.