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   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <9a0ta5td5lvg6alb1qld5vtef1ogdc7iqs@4ax.com> SnapTrap   
   ouchyouf*cker.ork writes:   
   >On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:22:10 -0400, Walter Bushell    
   >puked:   
      
   >>Legalize small growers via tax certificate. "This grower allowed to grow   
   >>up to 12 plants."   
      
   >That's not a bad idea on its face, but any limitation on any drug law   
   >is going to create a black market.   
      
   Well, there are black markets and there are black markets.   
      
   There is a small black market in Cuban cigars in this country, but since   
   cigars from everywhere else are legal (and taxed) it is very small.  However,   
   if we banned tobacco tomorrow we would see a HUGE increase in the black   
   market.   
      
   With cannabis it would be similar.  Sure, there would be a small black market,   
   but the majority of the market would be legal and regulated.  You would be   
   unlikely to have armed thugs guarding marijuana plantations in national and   
   state parks, the way we do now.   
      
   I would hardly worry about the wart-sized black market we might have after   
   regulated legalization when the current black market is a huge cancer that has   
   spread throughout the whole world.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
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