What are your thoughts on Marijuana legalization?

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#29
Ask Canadian smokers.....Canada legalized a regulated form. Most smokers thought the legal stuff was crap and too diluted to even be worth while.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Ask Canadian smokers.....Canada legalized a regulated form. Most smokers thought the legal stuff was crap and too diluted to even be worth while.
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If there is a market, there will be a company that steps up and provides what is demanded. Once a company realizes the amount of money they could make by producing a high quality product, that high quality product will be available.
 
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#34
And those who think legalizing it would get rid of the spending on the DEA, etc. are wrong. Anything that is legalized, taxed, and regulated means more government agents to regulate a drug - FDA, sales of it - DEA, taxes collected - IRS. Regardless of whether this is legal or not, you will still have a nice bloated government trying to control and manipulate it.
 
#39
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And the DEA. Realize that the DEA polices and patrols the records of your local pharmacies....if the paperwork is not top notch, the DEA will move in and close shop.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
If no one buys regulated and weakened weed, taxes mean nothing.
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They will buy it. It's in their nature. After all, how many pot smokers do you think are energetic and motivated.

They don't bake their own Doritos, and they won't grow their own weed if they can run down to the store and pick up a pack of Marlboro Greens.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
And those who think legalizing it would get rid of the spending on the DEA, etc. are wrong. Anything that is legalized, taxed, and regulated means more government agents to regulate a drug - FDA, sales of it - DEA, taxes collected - IRS. Regardless of whether this is legal or not, you will still have a nice bloated government trying to control and manipulate it.
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There would still be some expenditure on enforcement required, much like alcohal, but the cost would be greatly reduced. You would no longer need nearly as many "drug task force" officers. There would be no need to commit money to helicopters to search out pot fields. There would be a dramatic reduction in the number of hours the DA's office would spend working cases for possession.

All things considered, it would save a bundle of money.
 
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First&Tenn said:
There would still be some expenditure on enforcement required, much like alcohal, but the cost would be greatly reduced. You would no longer need nearly as many "drug task force" officers. There would be no need to commit money to helicopters to search out pot fields. There would be a dramatic reduction in the number of hours the DA's office would spend working cases for possession.

All things considered, it would save a bundle of money.
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Would it? If the government were going to legalize it in order to reap the taxes from it, they might get pissed about all the pot being sold on the street for less than you could buy it in the store. Kinda cutting out there tax benefit.
 
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allvol123 said:
Would it? If the government were going to legalize it in order to reap the taxes from it, they might get pissed about all the pot being sold on the street for less than you could buy it in the store. Kinda cutting out there tax benefit.
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maybe, but do you buy only moonshine and homebrew beer?
 
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Legalized marijuana would cost more and be diluted. Since those who grow and sell illegal pot are not going to just voluntarily give up their source of income, especially when demand for the real thing will exist, where does legalizing it get us?
 
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CSpindizzy said:
where does legalizing it get us?
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how about jails that aren't filled with nonviolent first time drug offenders? how about giving the police the time and ability to investigate and prosecute violent crimes?
 
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MG1968 said:
maybe, but do you buy only moonshine and homebrew beer?
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Nope. The people that do this for a living have made it easier and less expensive to buy it in a store. Not seen to many people selling beer on the street. Although I do know some good moonshiners. I believe pot growers would be able to maintain a price below what it could be sold for in a store.
 
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allvol123 said:
Nope. The people that do this for a living have made it easier and less expensive to buy it in a store. Not seen to many people selling beer on the street. Although I do know some good moonshiners. I believe pot growers would be able to maintain a price below what it could be sold for in a store.
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I doubt it. I believe that ADM, ConAgra, and other agricultural giants could grow a great deal of high quality marijuana very cost efficiently.
 
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MG1968 said:
how about jails that aren't filled with nonviolent first time drug offenders? how about giving the police the time and ability to investigate and prosecute violent crimes?
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Again, read what I already posted. Making it legal does not cause all dealers and growers of the illegal type to give up what they've done. They will continue making their money selling their product outside the confines of the legalized versions. So instead of solving the problem like you think, it just creates a larger bureacracy maintaining the legal type and then the existing one fighting the illegal type.
 
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therealUT said:
I doubt it. I believe that ADM, ConAgra, and other agricultural giants could grow a great deal of high quality marijuana very cost efficiently.
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Do you honestly think such major companies would touch something with the liability of marijuana? Do you think they would touch a product that would involve regulation and constant oversight by various government agencies?
 
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