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new bill to legalize it, what do you think non-sports?

Legalize it and tax it just like alcohol and tobacco products such as Skoal and a pack of Marlboro's. The problem is keeping the ability to draw tax revenue from it. It's a plant. Why go buy when I can grow it in my back yard? Especially if its now legal and don't have to worry about the cops raiding my house.
 
Bamabuzzard said:
Legalize it and tax it just like alcohol and tobacco products such as Skoal and a pack of Marlboro's. The problem is keeping the ability to draw tax revenue from it. It's a plant. Why go buy when I can grow it in my back yard? Especially if its now legal and don't have to worry about the cops raiding my house.
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Tobacco is a plant too. I'm not sure what this bill says about it, but I am sure the government will regulate who and how you can grow it. You'll have to apply for and pay for a growing license. Something like that.

Which again, goes back to people will still grow it in their backyards and we'll still have the government wasting money on putting those people in jail.
 
TideEngineer08 said:
Tobacco is a plant too. I'm not sure what this bill says about it, but I am sure the government will regulate who and how you can grow it. You'll have to apply for and pay for a growing license. Something like that.

Which again, goes back to people will still grow it in their backyards and we'll still have the government wasting money on putting those people in jail.
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I agree. The "black market" will still be present but I would assume the "street price" of mary-jane would drastically drop due to the legalizing of it.
 
It would be nice if this issue would be taken seriously. Too many people are rotting in jail/prisons, taking up space and tax dollars, all because politicians use this issue as a way of demonstrating that they are "tough on crime".

I would also allow a personal-consumption option, allowing folks to grow their own for personal consumption.
 
I don't smoke it, but I know people that do. I prefer them high on weed than drunk. I feel safer when they're high.
 
I have a stoner buddy who works part time on the west coast. He also is a staunch conservative voter. (I know, go figure...)

He tells me about legal pot vending machines out there to accommodate medical pot. Says it's just great, and he will be moving out there to retire. I remind him, if enough people that vote like he does move out there, they will put a stop to that medical pot nonsense.

The prison industry would hate to see pot legalized, it's way overdue. If someone wants to grow a plant to use, and doesn't harm anyone else, it should be none of the government's business.
 
Chukker Veteran said:
I have a stoner buddy who works part time on the west coast. He also is a staunch conservative voter. (I know, go figure...)

He tells me about legal pot vending machines out there to accommodate medical pot. Says it's just great, and he will be moving out there to retire. I remind him, if enough people that vote like he does move out there, they will put a stop to that medical pot nonsense.

The prison industry would hate to see pot legalized, it's way overdue. If someone wants to grow a plant to use, and doesn't harm anyone else, it should be none of the government's business.
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I have never understood what interest a legal authority has in a weed that is growing in my back yard. Yet I could be arrested if i had it growing in a 5 gallon bucket next to my tomatoes.
 
Just to clarify, when someone says "he/they want to legalize marijuana" people start freaking out. This bill is really just allowing states to legalize it, right?
 
Legalize it already! And no, I don't partake...anymore... I just think it's time we quit being stupid about this and move on. They say it's a gateway drug. Pam Cooking spray can be a gateway drug too. Let's legalize this stuff and get the tax revenue. Sheesh...
 
Well...the snack food industry would certainly support this. Honey buns, potato chips, beef jerkey, ice cream, etc...
 
Bamabuzzard said:
I agree. The "black market" will still be present but I would assume the "street price" of mary-jane would drastically drop due to the legalizing of it.
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my opinion it will have quite a lot of positive effects

the street price dropping will take quite a bit of cash a way from the Mexican cartels that are wreaking havoc along the border right now.

It will keep people away from dealers. Dealers who deal in all kinds of unsavory drugs and have a vested interest in getting people to try stronger stuff. "sorry man I am out of Pot but I have coke and Ecstasy, how about a free taste" To me this is the truth of the "gateway drug" BS. If people can go to CVS and buy pot they won't even know these guys. Legal dispensaries and drug stores will never do this.

Clear up the prisons for real criminals

Clear up the courts to prosecute real criminals

keep Pot out of the reach of kids* - When I was in High School I could get any drug I wanted but alcohol and to a lesser extent tobacco. Not that I did ;)

etc, etc

J
the * is there because I know, just like alcohol some legal adults will buy for little brothers/sisters, younger friends etc
 
If they do this it will destroy the family farm. Cans of Libby's and Jolly Green Giant cannabis(complete with coupons at Wal-Mart) will be the ruination of the 18 year old street hustler and bring on the total collapse of the underground economy as we(some of us anyway) know it.
 
buzzincuzzin said:
If they do this it will destroy the family farm. Cans of Libby's and Jolly Green Giant cannabis(complete with coupons at Wal-Mart) will be the ruination of the 18 year old street hustler and bring on the total collapse of the underground economy as we(some of us anyway) know it.
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And the old Cheech and Chong movies will no longer be funny.
 
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