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Originally Posted by Aeolwind
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So, to me, from a capitalist stand point: Legalize it, tax it, remove the stigma, make people rich. Tax the seeds based on potential yield and you'll add another boat load in tax dollars.
It isn't the governments job to tell us what we can and cannot do. It is the governments job to make sure we can do it safely, within reason.
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The governments job is telling us what we can or cannot do, OR making sure we do it safely is a point that, out of context, is meaningless.
Governments place is to serve the people. Nothing else.
If the people want to be told what to do, then government may do so.
If not, again its up to the particular social contract of that nation. Our particular constitution is very much open ended on that front, allowing us to go from one extreme to the next as the people wish.
The people are, at the end of the day, more important that the system.
In so far as legal weed, besides being a minor boon (Yep, minor at best) to fast food and junk food as with any other business when made legal profits would take a steep nose dive into shitville. People simply will not continue to pay hundreds of dollars for a stinky bud. People like me still willingly pay $15 and up for a bottle of beer, but I know VERY few others who would even when they have the money.
Once the legal aspect is removed all justification for artificial prices and market manipulation falls away and as the last 2 months here in California shows, the market stabilizes.
I know of 8 medical clinics for weed that have closed down in 60 days.
The rest are driving prices lower and lower. Either, as usually happens, a large transnational pharma will step in to control the market itself (effectively competing with only itself, as is the American way....
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) if it ever becomes legal in the state, driving the small clinics into the dirt and, as they do NOW, not paying taxes by simply reincorporating overseas (Haliburton, BP, Transocean, most electronics manufactures in the US, ect).
If you want the entrepreneurs to get rich, then keep it illegal. If you want to help the rich get richer, then by all means go ahead.