It makes no sense because you want to pretend that "manufacturers" ("Big Dope") and high taxers (no pun intended) won't see mj as a new revenue stream from which they can realize tremendous profits (and taxes) far in excess of anything they can get from booze. In other words, my comment made "no sense" because you are pipe dreaming reality as we know it (can you say, "gasoline tax") away (which is what "lotus eaters" will always do).
Of course, the same drug lords who control pot and other drugs today will find ways to run the bootlegged pot operation (meaning that the crime and violence associated with drug trafficking would continue, legalization proponents arguments to the contrary notwithstanding). What garbage. How much crime violence was associated with the alcohol trade after the 21st Amendment was ratified?
Refer to my statement above. When the price of "legal" dope goes sky high (as it inevitably will once corporate interests and the feds are involved), the gangs will be right back in the game. Reality may be "garbage" to you, but at some point you have to put down the pipe and face up to it.
If that were the case, then mj wouldn't be "regulated like alcohol", now would it.
When the price of "legal" dope goes sky high (as it inevitably will once corporate interests and the feds are involved), the gangs will be right back in the game.
Of course there would be a black market under a punitive tax regime, but you said "regulate like alcohol". Please pay attention and don't forget that.
Now, back up your unsupported claim that mj would be taxed to the point that the gangs would be right back in business.
Refer to my statement above. When the price of "legal" dope goes sky high (as it inevitably will once corporate interests and the feds are involved), the gangs will be right back in the game. Reality may be "garbage" to you, but at some point you have to put down the pipe and face up to it.