I’ve been seeing a lot lately about California making marijuana legal and taxing it in the same sort of way it works in Amsterdam.
Personally, I think this is a good idea. Everyone knows that California is the biggest pot growing place in the US if not the world and cash it’s bringing in is in the billions of dollars. Yes, it is a drug, but so is alcohol and vicodin and valium and all the other prescription medicines out there that. Yet if your company drug tests, none of these will keep you from getting a job, marijuana on the other hand, will.
Historically from what I could find there has never been anyone who has died of an overdose of marijuana [leaving out the possibility of them being stoned and crashing their car]. Alcoholism has killed thousands of people an when you mix in the people who mix alcohol with prescription drugs the numbers jump up even more.
We have medical marijuana clinics now and that makes it easy for people to get a card and get marijuana for it’s medicinal value. These are more of a minor blip in the marijuana cash crop business. Now think about this. If it becomes legal and taxed large companies would jump in and set up farms that would end up producing more marijuana as less cost which would overall end up dropping the price to offset the taxes placed on it. This could overall make it cheaper to purchase than it would to try and grow it similar to common vegetables like lettuce.
California needs cash badly and when you have a billion dollar industry that if legalized and taxed could turn into a trillion dollar industry I firmly believe that California would get a good boost to it’s economy. Not just from sales, but think of all the people who would come as tourists just because they could purchase marijuana legally. This would obviously boost border towns that usually need some help, but it would also boost the economies of metropolitan areas. Which would also help increase the hotel and restaurant business as well. All this would help to bring back the economy in California which while being the 8th largest economy in the world, has some of the worst marks in our school systems.
I Agree With You..
I think you have a good point. Why not set up a fine system, that makes it ok for you to buy pot on the streets and only get a little ticket. Instead of 25+ years in prison for a dime sack. If it’s ok for people to buy and smoke cigarettes that give them lung cancer, why not a little trainwreck in the evening after I have gone to work all week and contributed to my community…
You do realize that in California if you get caught with an ounce or less now you only get a ticket right?
man they should make marijuana legal in indiana
Let’s be honest, they should make it legal everywhere. Then our prison population would shrink and our economy would go up from the taxation of legal pot.
Yes Baghdadbythebay you are right but that is only for the first offense but you get caught again then the penalities increase so in a sense it is not decriminalized all that much but it is a step in the right direction so lets all keep our fingers crossed that lawmakers pull their heads out of their asses and let us be free to make a choice that should be our own!