Originally posted by Spyike.org
You probably live in a affluent area. In lower socio-economic areas, people have not received an education and do very stupid things. Let's say that the government earns $3 in taxes for a purchase of marijuana, or more. ONE accident where law enforcement is involved costs $1000+. An ambulance ride nowadays is an upwards of 900 USD...
but your making the assumtion there will be a accident from every purchase and that is not going to happen, will there be acciedents from it? yes but not as often as you think
and people already smoke it thus those accidents already happen and are already costing money, so why not tax it thus covering that cost and making a considerable profit from it? not only profit from the tax but from the money saved from the money they already spend trying to prevent people from using as in the ads,the police man hours,the court cost,the penial system cost
no matter how you try to look at it this would be very profitable