Baraka_Guru

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

uncle phil

said the fly to the spider...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

vancityboi

HAHA nice

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I reject your reality and substitute my own -MythBusters
Life is easier to measure by experience points -Watch The Guild

mazak

SSJTWIZTA

Very nice.

*cross's fingers* C'mon California!

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First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller

Plan9

Careful legalization and heavy taxation of marijuana would be a huge boost to the economy... but it would take like a zillion years to implement properly.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

ASU2003

Would there be gang violence against the government? Who would run the smoke clubs (would it be a private company that pays a huge tax rate, or would it be a government agency?) Would they just let the weed roam free on the streets?

While it is the right thing to do, I too worry about how it would get implemented. There is a lot of money in it currently, and I'm not sure the gangs and poor dealers are going to be happy when their client base goes to the legal stuff which has better quality control and prices.

And that comic is great. I should get a t-shirt made of it for the next time I try to cross the border.

Atreides88

I doubt you'd see violence against the government. More than likely the dealers would switch to selling the harder drugs. There will always be an open market. On the flipside of the coin, I'm sure quite a few of the current dealers would parlay they're "skills" into a legitimate business, considering they probably have wholesale and agriculture connections.

I think it's a great idea, but I doubt the puritanical teetotalers in our society would allow it. The same goes for the abolition of ABC stores and other government liquor purveyors.

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"There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another: but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school." -- Thucydides