This will probably set me at odds with many people but here goes.
I personally NOW believe, (I didn’t use to), that Marijuana as well as other currently illegal drugs should be made legal as well as taxed. Why?
Because the War on Drugs as well as the War on Terror have destroyed the foundations of this country and have brought us to the very edge of a total Surveillance and Police State. The Federal Government is nearly supreme in everything and can tell us, (The Citizens), what we can and can’t do from how much water our toilets can use to whether or not we can grow ‘organic’ vegetables to feed ourselves. Our movements are monitored, our computer usage can be monitored at whim.
I can go on and on, why bother if you’ve been here long enough you know all of that stuff. The solution IMHO is to legalize the damn drugs first and tax the h*ll out of them. It’s totally amazing at how hard the government will fight for it’s tax revenue isn’t it? That in itself will put a huge damper on illegal drugs entering the country. They’ll do it legally now and eventually make even bigger profits by getting rid of the more expensive portions of their current networks and security forces.
Just because something is “legal”, like pot, liquor, strip clubs, abortion clinics and Nevada houses of prostitution, doesn’t make it appropriate for 6-14 yr old girls to promote or endorse by their presence selling GS cookies