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On 11/24/2011 6:58 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:22:12 -0500, JustWait
wrote:

On 11/24/2011 1:58 PM, Disgusted wrote:
On 11/24/2011 12:12 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/24/11 12:08 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:55:03 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

end the war on drugs.it's a failure. that would end alot of the flow
of weapons and money over the border.

Well, I think possession of personal use quantities needs to be
decriminalized, especially for marijuana. I'm against lifting criminal
penalties for drug trafficking and big-time dealing.

That is a weasel position. Where are the "personal use" quantities
supposed to come from?
This is as bad as the other ill fated prohibition experience we had.
They tried to punish the manufacturers and importers without
criminalizing the use too.
You don't need a history book to see how that worked out, you just
need to look at our inner cities and the Mexico border..

Where? From licensed stores, of course. If you are over 18 and you want
pot, you should be able to buy a couple of ounces it at a licensed
store. The state would be able to collect its tax, just as it does with
cigarettes. There are ways to regulate how much you buy in any given
time period.

There are ways to regulate prescription drugs that are already in place.
We all know how well that works.

The problem is in taxing and controlling it. Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Prescription drugs need expensive materials, and expensive equipment to
refine and deliver the product the public is used to. If you tried to
manufacture/grow these items in any quantity and produce a product that
looked/smoked/tasted/performed like the retail product there would be a
big trail right to your door of evidence of the process/production. To
deliver pot in a form that is acceptable you need a box of baggies, and
a closet, some water and a light... The finished product from a kid and
his closet is easily as refined, and marketable as any huge operation
could produce. It would be entirely impossible to tell if someone
smoking legally on the street corner paid tax on the smoke or grew it
themselves...

People are lazy. The main reason why people don't make their own beer
is that it is hard to do. Growing decent pot is more complicated than
just throwing some seeds in the yard. If what I see on TV is accurate
about the California growers, it is pretty labor intensive.

The Humbolt County Sheriff even has a solution for that. You buy a tax
band for each plant you grow. No tax band, you go to jail for tax
evasion.

Anything would be better than what they are doing now. The government
is not getting any tax revenue, there is a trail of bodies in the
street from here to Mexico, we have a million people in prison and
there is still absolutely zero control of the illegal market.
Do you think there is anyone who wants drugs and can't get them?

We already did this and figured out that alcohol was bad but banning
it was worse, we are now seeing the exact same thing playing out with
other drugs.

Try making beer at home or wine for that matter without material in the
bottom of the bottle. The filter systems the big manufacturers use is a
lot more than you will run in your kitchen on any scale... Try growing
enough tobacco and processing it to burn and taste right. And no, it's
not hard to grow great pot, I used to know folks who did it.

The yeast left in the bottom is a mark of real beer, not ultra filtered
crap.