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| Stop the slurs immediately. |
Consider how easy it is to grow weed. Now consider how much more difficult that would be if weed would be legalized...
Weed grows easily, but that's not "easy to grow weed". Everyone doesn't have the space, dedication, equipement etc...
Also I'd like to remind we're actually in a ubber-consumer society. People prefere buying their stuff they can get and use straight away than "wasting time" doing it. Just like food, most people prefere buying pre-cooked shitty junk food instead of buying fresh products and make the little effort of cooking.
if anyone can grow it themselves or find someone nearby who grows it, who would buy the weed that has extra cost due to the taxes on it when they could get it tax free?
For any legal substance/product, there's a blackmarket choice, that doesn't mean everyone will buy the "illegal product" over the legal one. Plus, something being legal assures a certain quality and control of the product. Like, I could buy cheaper tobacco illegaly imported from nearby countries, but I don't.
Also lost money from current fines would probably negatively impact the economy.
But on the other hand the number of prosecutions related to marijuana would drop to nearly 0, which would be WAY LESS expenses from the government. You have to pay people working in court on those trials, the cost of overloaded prisons is pretty high as well etc...
plus :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3102003.html