IIRC, we spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $77,000,000,000 a year on the drug war (law enforcement, judicial, prison, and the theoretical lost profits on taxes). Even if you are ill-informed enough to think the prohibition keeps people safe, I can't imagine someone justifying lost monies of $77b considering the $11t—and growing—deficit.
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Originally Posted by flstf
I think pot should not be illegal but don't expect to make much money through taxation. The stuff is too easy to grow and it will be grown everywhere and be very cheap.
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I would imagine they said this about moonshine as prohibition was ending. What percentage of the alcohol market do you suppose is moonshine? .001%? .0001%?
Edit: it occurs to me that there was already an alcohol infrastructure before prohibition, whereas there has been none for drugs like marijuana for quite a long time, but even with this hitch I think my argument stands.