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   From: ElmoHateSpam@noSpam4U.org   
      
   M_P wrote:   
   > On Sep 27, 8:09 pm, "NotMe"  wrote:   
   >> "(PeteCresswell)"  wrote in message   
   >> news:0u20c59mul9kth16thmgkloeoa60ct1980@4ax.com...   
   >> : Per wis...@yahoo.com:   
   >   
   >> : >How long will this marijuana nonsense continue? Make it legal,   
   >> : >grow it here. Great small family farm.   
   >> :   
   >> : The national IQ is already somewhere below room temperature and   
   >> : falling.   Do we *really* want more people getting high?   
   >>   
   >> Making pot legal will not have much effect on who or how many get high.   
   >>   
   >> Recall prohibition and how well that worked?   
   >>   
   >> Make it legal   
   >   
   > Amen!   
   >   
   >> and tax the hell out of it.   
   >   
   > Nah, that'll just drive users back to the black market. We can   
   > probably tax it comparably to how we tax alcohol, for which there is   
   > no significant black market.   
      
   A black market would need to undercut the price of the legal stuff.   
   Right now the black market gets premium prices because of the legal   
   issues.  I'd expect legal product to undercut that even with taxes   
   added because, like tobacco, it isn't all that expensive to grow.   
      
   My favorite group advocating legalization is:   
   http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php   
      
      
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