On Dec 5, 8:43 am, wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 05:04:47 -0800 (PST),





wrote:
As I said, legalize most drugs and tax and control like alcohol. Some drugs
just should never be legal.- Hide quoted text -

That's one reason pot won't be legal for a long time. It takes
supplies and equipment to make beer, it takes even more processes to
cure tobacco to a point where anyone would want to smoke it. Both of
these processes take lost of space, and replenishable resources, these
are easy to track and then tax. Pot takes a seed, a little dirt, some
water and some light and as far as a process, when it is done put it
in a paper bag under your bed for a week and it is ready to smoke.
Store bought alcohol or tobacco is easy to pick out, home grown pot
would look, smell, and taste the same as govt. grown, and taxed weed.
They know they would never be able to tax it properly, it would be a
nightmare for LEO, so they just keep control of the cartels, and money
too...

People are lazy, if pot was legal people would just buy it and pay the
tax.

I disagree, two minutes a day, and a closet and you never got to spend
a penny...

Bootlegging would be fairly rare for the same reason moonshine
whisky is fairly rare. You can't compete with Seagrams, unless your
time is free, even if you do pay the tax. The government could keep
the draconian penalties for those who don't pay the tax.

That is just it, you can't compete with Seagrams without a lot of
bulky equipment and a lot of ingredients that would draw attention.
Moonshine can be distinguished easily from good stuff. Growing your
own tobacco would take at least I am guessing an acre or more to serve
one person, tobacco plants need to grow tall and big to produce
properly. Also with tobacco, without a very controled air system, you
could not cure it properly, like moonshine, it would be easy to spot
just by the smell. With pot, anyone with a 2x2 closet and a easily
cloned female plant can produce anything a larger operation can, you
would never be able to tell the difference. Hooch, would blend in
seamlessly, you would never know it was there...

I don't think drugs are a good thing but the "war" against them is
worse. It is just one more, very expensive "no win" war being waged by
the same people who want to wage war in Iraq.- Hide quoted text -


Boy did you take a wrong turn there too. Bush did not start the war on
drugs, and congress needs to stop it. Besides, if you go back you will
find the Kennedy name coming up back when pot became illegal, bet you
didn't know that Why do dems always blame Bush for everything, have
they no integerity at all, is winning more important, I guess so.