[exDemMom]

Considering that the main reason pot is moving toward legalization is driven by the tax revenue generated...

How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?

While marijuana's deleterious effects can be observed after fairly short-term, light use, alcohol and tobacco only cause health issues after years of heavy use. Meanwhile, people who drink and smoke are still able to work and produce, meaning that they remain profitable to the government for a long time. Marijuana users are far more likely to become a liability than to generate much in the way of taxes.

[Popman]

How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?

Work... Seriously ?

Getting income to buy dope is done the same way the parasites of society today do it...entitlements

Out of your and mine pocket...

I was talking about the tax revenue generated by selling pot legally...

[KamperKen]

"How much tax revenue can be generated by people who have no incentive to work?"

How much tax revenue will be raised by a tax that is easily avoided? The odds are that the government will heavily raise the tax on marijuana like they did on cigarettes and alcohol. But unlike cigarettes and alcohol, marijuana is easily manufactured (cultivated) and I see the heavy users doing exactly that to avoid what will soon be an onerous tax.

Whatever revenue is generated will then be consumed on policing efforts to prevent home grown or black market pot. I assume the black market has already started.

[ken5050]

Well stated...Wonder how long before we see chronic pot abusers qualify for Disability payments...

[sakic]

Seems like you would be shocked to learn that there are quite a few potheads that are huge earners and quite a few in the workforce smoke pot.

[sheana]

I have a cousin who is and always has been a pot head. He is 60 yrs old and has never done a productive thing in his life. He has been on Social Security Disability for many many yrs now. Dirt poor and still spends most of the money he gets on pot. Found out yesterday he has laryngeal cancer. He’ll still smoke pot.