so legalizing marijuana is good or bad?
I just heard on the news this morning and read on the news that legalizing that there's a bill pending on approval of POT. f**k THAT!!! why would i want it legal if all they're gonna do is up the price and tax my ass???
http://www.kcra.com/money/18778420/detail.html
Lawmaker: Legalize Pot, Generate Tax Income
San Francisco Democrat Introduces Bill
POSTED: 1:48 pm PST February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 5:19 pm PST February 23, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -- A state legislator is reviving the debate about legalizing marijuana as a way of raising money for cash-strapped state and local governments.
Survey: Legalize And Tax Marijuana?
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill Monday that if approved by the California Legislature would put pot on the same legal footing as alcohol. Adults over the age of 21 would be allowed to buy it, and driving under the influence of marijuana would be prohibited.
Under Ammiano's proposal, which has been endorsed by some law enforcement officials, pot would be taxed at a rate of $50 per ounce and bring an estimated $1 billion into state coffers.
In 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
"It is simply nonsensical that California's largest agricultural industry is completely unregulated and untaxed," Marijuana Policy Project California policy director Aaron Smith said in a prepared statement. "With our state in an ongoing fiscal crisis -- and no one believes the new budget is the end of California's financial woes -- it's time to bring this major piece of our economy into the light of day."
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week signed bills intended to close the state's $42 billion budget shortfall for the next year-and-a-half. The plan includes $15 billion in spending cuts, $12.8 billion in temporary tax increases and $11 billion in borrowing.