Could Legalizing & Taxing America's Largest Cash Crop Help Save Our Economy?

It's safer than drinking and think of all the revenue it would create. Not to mention how it would cut down on crime.

Yes, it most definitely should be legalized! Everyone keeps debating the potential tax dollars that the Govt would earn, but no one is mentioning the money we would save before it is even taxed. Every minute more and more of our tax dollars are being flushed down the toilet by spending more for D.E.A. and law enforcement devoted to prevent marijuana cultivation, distribution, and use. Imagine if we redirected that drug prevention money towards a real drug like crystal meth. Just about every police agency has said meth is the biggest drug problem in their area, and yet we waste our money on preventing marijuana. Why? As for the people that claim marijuana legalization would be bad for our society and cause all of these problems. I think they've been inhaling too much out the propaganda pipe from the federal govt.

YOU're Kidding, Right? Try sitting in on about 90 NA open meetings and ask a few members what they got started on etc.

OR you could leak your idea to the Democrats who would at least find

a way to create a paid task force and sponsor market tests, etc. Some

of them might even legalize this insane morality, like many other moral

principals [gay mariages and on and on] which they seem to think their

power and money positions automatically gives them greater WISDOM

Or you can just try becoming a pot head for 10 or 20 years and conduct your own research. But I realize...YOU're Kidding, Right?

Yeh but the thing is, the government already is all messed up, when they got their hands on it, things would really go to heck fast. Plus, there ain't no way government would pay their fair share of taxes for what they might use cause they would hide the fact that they use it. I imagine a few of the congressmen wish they had a joint right about now in this economic melt down.

I agree. It is similar to prohibition. If marijuana was regulated by the government it would be a tremendous source of revenue.

I dont think so since its already widely used. Check out http://thekrazykraken.blogspot.com/2009/03/leagliz... its an article about it

How could you tax it? too many people would go around the tax and just do like they have been and grow themsevles

We could use hemp for our products instead of oil and trees

No. You'll have to keep hooting your bong in the garage.

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