IS THIS TRUE? If America did this we could pay off the 10 trillion dollar debt and raise our economy?
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
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you could do even more if you abolished interest on public benefit capital works
this would save a trillion per year
im getting stoned right now. nothing great just some good stress weed. i wish they would make it legal and let all the people in prison for weed go free.
I do agree with the decriminalization of recreational drugs. Be careful about hyping pot. It does have some downs, but not as many as tobacco. The emphysema risk is real, and it sure does reduce ambitions. Probably no worse than alcohol, however. If you decriminalize pot you are asking to have the feds step in to regulate and tax it. Probably better than locking up kids for taking a couple of tokes though. The reason it’s illegal now is that they can’t detect use and it’s so easy to grow they can’t tax it. There’s also some residual fear of the unknown too. I think your $ numbers are a little optimistic, but we should not be locking up kids for toking.
If it were made legal, competition would drive the price down, and unless the taxes were very high, not as much revenue would be generated. If it were legal, a lot of people would probably grow their own, and not have to pay the tax at all. Revenue would be generated for the government, but it wouldn’t be enough to make water free, gasoline cheap, pay off the debt, etc. Marijuana does have medical uses such as appetite stimulation for cancer patients and chronic pain relief, but legalizing it would have far reaching social effects. A lot of time and money would have to be put into creating a ton of new laws, like how old you have to be to use it, where you can use it, can you use it on the job, etc. There’s positives and negatives, I don’t really have a strong opinion either way.
I am in favour of reducing penalties for simple possesion.
BUT, only a stoner thinks marijuana will save the world. Seriously, hemp is perfectly legal in many nations, yet they have not gotten the million new jobs, billions to spend on whatever you think is worth spending billions on, not any of the other crazy benefits you claim.
Making these insane claims does not help your position, rather makes you appear a simple stoner.