Taxing Marijuana

[JamesLast99]

I was taxed buying weed once. It certainly put me off buying it again.

 

[Rich]

I guess we know who voted "no".

We already made a cirrhosis inducing drug and a cancer inducing drug legal. Surely those are worse than a little temporary (and pleasurable) psychosis?

But the effects of smoking and drinking are as a result of long term usage, temporary psychosis (as you call it) can last for a lifetime from a short period of indulgence

 

[dan-cat]

I'm not sure that just makes a case for a causal link.
It could simply also imply that many people under psychiatric care have displayed a disposition for dabbling in mind altering experiences.

I'm not saying there is definitely NOT a case to be made for mind altering drugs leading to permanent modification of brain chemistry. I'm simply saying the statement does not prove the point.

My opinion doesn't prove anything at all. However if you research the subject yourself you will find cannabis-induced psychosis is a medical fact.

I think proposing the use of this drug as a state fund-raising exercise is wholly ignorant. This is regardless of being compared to the UK Prime Minister which was wholly ignorant too.

 

[Rabbie]

Then legal alcohol sends out the message it is OK to drink 10 gallons of beer every evening??

Unfortunately many young people think that is the case and only fail because they can't physically drink that amount. Drunkeness on the streets is a major problem here.

 

[ASherbuck]

The only input I have is that with any product that is imbibed once a corporation gets there hands on it the quality, safety and desirability of it typically goes down in the name of reaching a bottom line where output is through the roof and cost is driven as far down as possible.

I think it would be great for a short period of time until the unavoidable "big marijuana" moves in and lobbies for laws to prevent people from growing their own because it's hurting their right to grow and sell it.

I also can't wait to see what new and terrible chemicals they begin lacing it (a la tobacco) with to increase potency, cheaply.

I voted yes, but the externalities that would accompany it would eventually outweigh the good.

*EDIT* Oh, and let us not forget that at one time Opium was prescribed as treatment for alcoholism because it was considered socially acceptable to lounge lethargically instead of angrily beating members of your family.

 

[pono1]

...at one time Opium was prescribed as treatment for alcoholism because it was considered socially acceptable to lounge lethargically instead of angrily beating members of your family.

The balanced approach is typically the best approach: one should blithely beat members of one's own family...

 

[Fifty2One]

In Afghanistan and Iraq the insurgents are permitted to use force to have people grow opium in order to generate money to support the terrorist causes - meanwhile in the western world hemp heads are being arrested for a joint or two or a couple of marajuana plants... it is a curious world indeed...

 

[dan-cat]

Now that the British media have enlightened us on how this drug money would actually be spent, I wonder if anybody has had a rethink on this?

 

[Pauldohert]

Unfortunately many young people think that is the case and only fail because they can't physically drink that amount. Drunkeness on the streets is a major problem here.

Lightweights!

 

[pbaldy]

Now that the British media have enlightened us on how this drug money would actually be spent, I wonder if anybody has had a rethink on this?

I'm not familiar with what you're referring to, but how the money would be spent was not a factor in my opinion, so finding out that the government might misspend the money would not change my opinion. It would also not surprise me. Government misspends most of the money it extracts from us, so why expect otherwise here?