2012-11-07, 12:08 PM
Flonne Wrote:This. From a purely economical standpoint, they could fix a LARGE chunk of our debt by simply taxing this one substance. I don't approve of using it, but again, not everything is about me; this country is in a hole, and the only way to climb out of that hole is with tons of hard cash.
There's a few problems with it though. Although its free money, it's extremely exaggerated. I haven't taken the time to read the specifics but from the comments I'm reading it seems to not be as strict as, let's say california. I mean to be quite frank, the quality of weed would plummit, dealers would still exist to avoid taxes, and the fact their weed will probably be higher quality.
A lot of people refer to the alcohol "error" (that was actually pretty successful) made, but I think, note, think, that alcohol is a lot harder to merchandise than weed.