The best article ever on the future of pot legalization

[TheKentuckian]

25. I agree meth is horrific, I can't agree with the rest. What we are doing is making it worse

not holding back a greater storm of hell that would be unleashed upon society if not for our brave law enforcement and secure prisons. Such is completely unsupported, in fact the tighter the grip the greater harm to broader society and the zeal to crackdown is pure emotionalism that is admittedly reasonably derived from the effects of the street formulations and the reaction of law enforcement which ever ratchets up the associated dangers.

Shit, meth is a prime example the societal problems are actually orders of magnitude worse than before it was considered a focus. We were better off by far when someone was able to walk into the corner store and buy methamphetamine cheap and easy. Where their problems? Sure but the reaction has created a fairly dangerous environment for those who don't even use the shit while herding users to more dangerous versions.

I also think there is more revenue than you think in taxation of weed, though less than some would guesstimate based off inflated street prices powered by prohibition because far fewer than you make out will grow as long as a reasonably true market is allowed to be established.

Logically, prices will plummet. If you overcharged you kill your revenue stream because more would try to grow. Once this is allowed to balance out then you can introduce taxation and still be significantly lower than street prices.

People are making this more complicated that it at all needs to be. Almost no one grows their own tobacco even though it is taxed at now hundreds and in the case of roll your own, thousands of percent above retail and you totally can, seeds are readily available. Weed without the specter of legal sanction would be even easier, cheaper, and less labor intensive to cultivate. This really should be simple but perspectives are distorted by a few generations of extreme silliness and the fear of loss of revenue from folks all over the map.