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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (42418)	12/27/2010 10:17:11 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "legal pot would completely eliminate the pot cartel's grip on those who use it" Exactly! (After all... when was the LAST TIME that we heard about massive heavily armed criminal enterprises smuggling GIN into the country, and buying off corrupt politicians and cops? Answer: the era of Al Capone, during the previous venture in federal prohibition.) Re: "and the government would have another revenue source," (Something that a few of the states are looking at hard now, in this era of Recession and budget difficulties and declining revenues. I, for one, would FAR RATHER have voluntary USER FEES help to lift the revenue load... instead of raising broad-based tax rates. If you don't drink then you don't pay any alcohol tax... don't smoke pot then a tax on pot doesn't hit your wallet... don't gamble then gambling taxes don't hurt you any... but if they raise sales or income or even property taxes then it is mighty hard to avoid THAT.) Re: "it would be a win-win-win all across the board... also, we're jamming up the jails and prison system with pot people when those spaces could be used to hold real criminals" I agree wholeheartedly. Save large amounts of money across the board. Save many Billions on military and law enforcement devoted to this every year, and save on arrest and prosecution costs, and incarceration expenses (what? something like $30,000 or so on average for every person you lock up?), and our policing resources could go to locking up the VIOLENT predators (not to mention policing against all kinds of fraud that go largely unprosecuted today) and society would be much safer... and at a lower cost too!