Posted on 04/16/2013 8:49:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Not the same actors, and not performing the same violent criminal acts. Thanks for the pro-legalization argument!
"The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money" - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
You (intentionally) miss the point. The issue is taxes. And answer the question: Would a doper spend $15 for a $5 joint?
Back to the issue in real life: 3 out of 5 cigarettes in NYC are sold through the Black Market which funds terrorism.
Why? Cigarettes are legal, right?
I addressed that issue two posts ago: "they merely have to refrain from taxing it out the wazoo."
And answer the question: Would a doper spend $15 for a $5 joint?
No. If a frog had wings, would it drag its posterior on the ground?
Back to the issue in real life: 3 out of 5 cigarettes in NYC are sold through the Black Market which funds terrorism.
Why? Cigarettes are legal, right?
Because in NYC they're taxed out the wazoo. But nowhere else in the USA is this the case, and nowhere in the USA is it the case for the legal drug alcohol - so there's no reason to assume it would be true of legal marijuana.
And if SOME of the marijuana market was overtaxed and thus funded terrorism, that's still an improvement over the status quo in which ALL of the marijuana market funds terrorism
Sorry but in Washington’s case that just isn’t true. Besides 92% taxation the state is going to control the THC content to somewhere around 7%. Street pot now routinely tests much, much higher.
With the medical pot being seperate and given our state being close to the famous BC Bud and Washington’s big clandestine pot growers, the state will not see their pipe dream come true.
Nonsense - pot is produce, and even at a 92% tax rate only the most exotic legal produce costs as much as illegal pot, for which many are willing to pay.
Sorry but in Washington’s case that just isn’t true.
In Washington many kinds of legal produce are almost as expensive as illegal pot? Evidence?
Besides 92% taxation the state is going to control the THC content to somewhere around 7%. Street pot now routinely tests much, much higher.
As of 2009, the University of Mississippi's Marijuana Potency Monitoring Project found an average of 13% - higher but not "much, much higher." And you can get just as high on 7% as on 13% or 30% just as you can get as drunk on beer as on liquor - it just takes more consumption to get there.
You know what they say about arguing with idiots...
“produce”? You have no idea about what you speak, nor do you have any clue about reality as your responses show.
I am a 10 year medical patient who has doctors routinely offer me advice on pot as an alternative medicine and have tried it on occasions when standard medicine failed. Whether I chose to be or not, I am at ground zero for this legalization movement. I can assure you, as the law is written in Washington, it will fail just the the Federal program has failed the 12 or 13 patients left in the program. Everyone of them throw their government pot away and either grow their own or buy it from the grey market. So will the people here as soon as they experience the bad legal product and sky high taxes on crap. Nobody will pay it when other better, cheaper outlets are available, quit being stupid.
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