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Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice
I guess it depends on how much pot would be sold for. Most of the people who I grew up with that smoked pot were lazy like you said. Most of them didn't have a job which means they had nothing but time on their hands and little money for pot. I doubt the cost to grow pot would be anywhere near the cost to brew beer and it can't require much skill either. Its not like were making crystal meth here.
That being said, I can't see any good coming from legalizing weed.
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I dunno. I'm not interested in smoking weed in the least bit... yet I'd love to see it legalized and taxed. The income from weed taxes, plus the reduced cost of arresting, prosecuting, and jailing weed offenders would be a huge boon for the gov't. Hell, if CA did it, they could probably fix their budget issues. But if NV did it first, we'd make a *ton* of money from all the Californians coming to buy. Granted there would be a ton of smoked out hippies everywhere while it was novel, but the tax revenue would make up for that IMO. I'd much rather have a regulated, state sponsored, state taxed, pot industry than a state income tax, which is the road we're on with the gambling industry taking such a big hit lately.
Plus, in the long run, legalized weed should result in reduced crime, and reduced use of harder drugs, since the only reason weed was a "gateway" drug was because you had to buy it from a drug dealer who'd offer you harder shit on the side.
IMO, legal weed makes economic and social sense. It's kind of a no-brainer. We just need all the people that were brainwashed by the refer madness campaigns in the 50's to die off or get out of the gov't.