I'm sure there are some people for whom marijuana was the first drug on their road to shooting and snorting anything they can, but I think most of those people would have ended up on hard drugs regardless of whether they started out with weed.
Most of the country is downwind of California. World, get ready for a friendlier, mellower USA.
As for the taxing, isn't it legal to brew your own beer without paying taxes, so long as you don't distribute it? As long as you're taxing distribution, and not production, this shouldn't be terribly problematic. There will always be large numbers of stoners who can't be bothered to grow their own, or don't have a green thumb, or find themselves jonesing while away from home.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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