If California is debating legalizing and taxing marijuana, then why not grow...

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harryh

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...it and produce it themselves? There has been thoughts and talk of legalizing and taxing. If the idea is on the table, why not bypass the middlemen (who would most likely be a tobacco company like Philip Morris) and have the state be the grower, and producer all in one. The land is there, the man-power is definitely there. Everything is already in place. Time magazine ran a story back in March about California legalizing and taxing. Right now it is California's biggest cash crop at 18 billion per year. If it were legalized and taxed, the projected tax revenue would be 1.3 billion per year in revenue. Again, if this option is on the table, then why give Philip Morris 16.7 billion? Just like a state run lottery, the state would be able to control everything from start to finish. There would be no concessions to a big tobacco lobbyist. What would the downside of this be as compared to a program that collects just tax? This isn't a legal or illegal question. It's a question about what would happen next, and how to fully maximize profits for the state.
menacing gorilla. I'm not from California, and I haven't touched pot in years. ( well once in Amsterdam back in August, but that didn't count). Anyhow, you are off topic. It wasn't an ethics questions. It was a question about how to maximize profits. If you want to sigh, then do so at Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano- the original idea was his.
 
I agree that everything is in place. We do have the available resources to grow and sell marijuana. I have always been for the legalization of this herb even though I don't smoke it. It would definitely bring California back on its feet and it would boost our economy as well. I do agree that we should cut down the middle man, but that would be unlikely since we are in one of the most capitalist countries in the world. I hope that California can by pass that notion and become a state for the people as it should be.
 
Apparently, you are not from California nor never have been here. more than half of the northern part of this state are illegal pot farms. In fact, natives know not to veer too far from the major highways up around there or you could "disappear".

But legalizing it is never going to happen. People have been trying for over 4 decades and it's still illegal so it's not even a question anymore. And it doesn't matter what the hell the income would be because the problems - health care, arrests for DUI's and public intoxication and so on - would triple or quadruple that amount. So it's not as profitable as pot heads are trying to make it out to be.


But, if it ever were, we're set. Trust me.
 
Sigh. What do you care? I mean, do you have a life or are you some moronic pot-head trying to justify your pathetic habit? If you really have a death wish, go jump off a cliff okay? Thanks.
 
Gorilla is right. Waste of time and Life, Go do something that is constructive, If we legalize that shit, it'll be the downfall of America.
 
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