would alcohol be cheaper if it was illegal?

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: loki8481
it might be cheaper in the sense that you'd be required to make your own, which would be cheaper (and taste more disgusting) than buying it in a store.

Not to mention be far more dangerous.

Maybe this thread will help some people understand why <insert drug> prohibition is almost never a good thing.

You're not seriously trying to tell me that legalizing marijuana would:
[bul][*]Make it cheaper.
[*]Make it safer to aquire.
[*]Make it safer to use.
[*]Cost the government billion$ less.
[*]Make money from taxes similar to those placed on alcohol.
[/bul]

That's just ridiculous.

About 10 or 15yrs ago, IIRC the estimates for taxation of currently illegal drugs rang in at 10-15 billion per year. I'd imagine it would be much higher now

So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: loki8481
it might be cheaper in the sense that you'd be required to make your own, which would be cheaper (and taste more disgusting) than buying it in a store.

Not to mention be far more dangerous.

Maybe this thread will help some people understand why <insert drug> prohibition is almost never a good thing.

You're not seriously trying to tell me that legalizing marijuana would:
[bul][*]Make it cheaper.
[*]Make it safer to aquire.
[*]Make it safer to use.
[*]Cost the government billion$ less.
[*]Make money from taxes similar to those placed on alcohol.
[/bul]

That's just ridiculous.

About 10 or 15yrs ago, IIRC the estimates for taxation of currently illegal drugs rang in at 10-15 billion per year. I'd imagine it would be much higher now

So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

About 50B nationwide, last time I heard someone talking numbers.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: loki8481
it might be cheaper in the sense that you'd be required to make your own, which would be cheaper (and taste more disgusting) than buying it in a store.

Not to mention be far more dangerous.

Maybe this thread will help some people understand why <insert drug> prohibition is almost never a good thing.

You're not seriously trying to tell me that legalizing marijuana would:
[bul][*]Make it cheaper.
[*]Make it safer to aquire.
[*]Make it safer to use.
[*]Cost the government billion$ less.
[*]Make money from taxes similar to those placed on alcohol.
[/bul]

That's just ridiculous.

About 10 or 15yrs ago, IIRC the estimates for taxation of currently illegal drugs rang in at 10-15 billion per year. I'd imagine it would be much higher now

So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

About 50B nationwide, last time I heard someone talking numbers.

I think the government could do so much more with an extra $60+ Billion...

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

May God Have Mercy On Your Soul...

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

About 50B nationwide, last time I heard someone talking numbers.

I think the government could do so much more with an extra $60+ Billion...

Yeah, like appoint a couple more idiot nephews of senators into the federal government.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

About 50B nationwide, last time I heard someone talking numbers.

I think the government could do so much more with an extra $60+ Billion...

Yeah, like appoint a couple more idiot nephews of senators into the federal government.

Or they could stop leaving kids behind. For real this time.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
So that's $10-15Billion we'd take in, and how many billion we'd stop spending? 😛
😉

About 50B nationwide, last time I heard someone talking numbers.

I think the government could do so much more with an extra $60+ Billion...

Yeah, like appoint a couple more idiot nephews of senators into the federal government.

Or they could stop leaving kids behind. For real this time.

or, far more likely than either two, we could build a new stealth bomber 🙂

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Mookow
Yeah, like appoint a couple more idiot nephews of senators into the federal government.

Or they could stop leaving kids behind. For real this time.

Of all the fairy tales I have ever heard, the one I never even considered as possibly real is the federal government doing something efficiently.

 

[Josh]

Put it this way, if weed was legal do you think it'd be cheaper? Of course, because every Joe and Jane would be growing that sh!t in their backyard.

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: apac
How the hell would it be cheaper? Less supply, more demand. You do the math.

I remember in history class the teacher said there were more booze during prohibition than any other time 🙂

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Why do you think they wanna legalize pot??? Lower prices.

I didn't want to be the first to mention any other drugs. 😉

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
That's why marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. are all insanely expensive and fund the a-holes that want to kill innocent Americans. Thanks Bush!

Now now, I'm no fan of President Shrub, but he has little to do with it..

Actually I don't know much about how it became against the law again. Wasn't it Regan that really pushed the Anti-drug thing, though?

Yea it was Reagan who did a lot. But marijuana was illegal a lot before then, according to some because of the cotton industry and their fear of hemp becoming popular and killing the cotton companies profits. A lot of lame propoganda and uneducated people too.

 

[toant103]

another no. Check out the price for weed

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: toant103
another no. Check out the price for weed

I wouldn't know, stoner.

 

[Mik3y]

is this thread a joke???? wtf???? cheaper??? (somebody muy estupido)

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
seems to me that it would be cheaper and encourage more microbreweries if it was banned.

Wait, wait.. I just noticed the OP...

So you think that alcohol being illegal would encourage microbreweries?! How do you figure? Considering it would be against the law to operate... yeah, you're going to have lots of "microbreweries", but not the kind you're thinking of.

 

[BigFatCow]

Originally posted by: Josh
Put it this way, if weed was legal do you think it'd be cheaper? Of course, because every Joe and Jane would be growing that sh!t in their backyard.

legal as in to sell like cigarettes, not legal to grow. Like alcohol is legal to sell but not to make.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: Josh
Put it this way, if weed was legal do you think it'd be cheaper? Of course, because every Joe and Jane would be growing that sh!t in their backyard.

legal as in to sell like cigarettes, not legal to grow. Like alcohol is legal to sell but not to make.

It's perfectly legal to make your own alcohol.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Why do you think they wanna legalize pot??? Lower prices.

I didn't want to be the first to mention any other drugs. 😉

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
That's why marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. are all insanely expensive and fund the a-holes that want to kill innocent Americans. Thanks Bush!

Now now, I'm no fan of President Shrub, but he has little to do with it..

Actually I don't know much about how it became against the law again. Wasn't it Regan that really pushed the Anti-drug thing, though?

I only chose Bush because of the fairly recent anti-drug ads showing us that buy pot are funding terrorism. If that were true, the administration could legalize drugs, the prices would PLUMMET, and terrorists would get a LOT less funding. All the while saving the US a French ton of dollar bills that could fund the abortions those poor strippers in DC all have to get two months after congress goes into session.

Just for the record, I blieve it was richard nixon who started the drug war. Not our nation's most shining example of a liberal, despire his skilled foreign policy 😉

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: Josh
Put it this way, if weed was legal do you think it'd be cheaper? Of course, because every Joe and Jane would be growing that sh!t in their backyard.

legal as in to sell like cigarettes, not legal to grow. Like alcohol is legal to sell but not to make.

crap you better tell these guys , and these and many others that is against the law.

heck I should call the local police station! we have a store that sales hombrew kits! Oh and homebrewdude should be shot! he makes beer all the time!

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: BigFatCow

Originally posted by: Josh
Put it this way, if weed was legal do you think it'd be cheaper? Of course, because every Joe and Jane would be growing that sh!t in their backyard.

legal as in to sell like cigarettes, not legal to grow. Like alcohol is legal to sell but not to make.

crap you better tell these guys , and these and many others that is against the law.

heck I should call the local police station! we have a store that sales hombrew kits! Oh and homebrewdude should be shot! he makes beer all the time!

And I was just brewing my first 5 gallons this week, too. 🙁

 

[Amused]

History has shown us that alcohol was more expensive during prohibition. And more dangerous. Many a person died from bathtub gin during the 20s.

Also, the rate of alcoholism was barely touched by prohibition. But the violence caused by the underground black market caused the crime rate to skyrocket.

Proof that prohibition of ANY drug is counterproductive.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Amused
History has shown us that alcohol was more expensive during prohibition. And more dangerous. Many a person died from bathtub gin during the 20s.

Also, the rate of alcoholism was barely touched by prohibition. But the violence caused by the underground black market caused the crime rate to skyrocket.

Proof that prohibition of ANY drug is counterproductive.

The problem with the prohibition of alcohol is that it is a cultural activity as much as it is a drug. Banning alcohol is like banning TV, whereas banning, say, heroin is like banning Opie and Anthony from Nickelodeon.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
seems to me that it would be cheaper and encourage more microbreweries if it was banned.

no. jackass.

 

[jjones]

No, any way you look at it, alcohol would be more expensive were it illegal.

 

[BruinEd03]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
seems to me that it would be cheaper and encourage more microbreweries if it was banned.

Please don't start a company, attend biz school, or do anything that requires economics. Oh and if you're in charge of a company, please let everyone know so we don't buy any stocks in your company. Thank you.

-Ed