So the odds of marijuana being legalized are nil. Be real. Even in California.
Not sure that I truly want it to be legalized. But I wouldn't mind talking about it.
I can't help remembering my idealistic days at UC Santa Barbara, debating the pros and cons of legalization. In a formal debate class, no less. We found research that supported the legalization of heroin!
Research out of Texas showed that crime related to heroin addiction went down when the drug was legal. Addicts were able to lead productive lives when they accessed the drug legally. Some addicts. And that was an improvement over no addicts leading crime-free productive lives.
California needs the money, that's for sure. A large cache of cash has evaporated in this state. The gov began swinging the axe on taxes back with vehicle registration. Now it's schools and social social services sustaining the blows.
Maybe the gov is secretly hoping that millions and billions will come in from marijuana sales.
Not! Too many bugaboos. Too much superstition. Too many downsides, and no air time for an upside.
Unless we could talk about the parallel to legalized alcohol. Did prohibition stop alcohol consumption? Of course not. Did the rate of alcoholism go up when prohibition was repealed? Don't think so. More alcohol related crime? No. More underage users? Nope.
Did tax revenues go up? Yup.
As it is in California, folks buy "medical marijuana" at a "club." A doctor "prescribes" it, but not on a prescription pad.
Still, somehow a cancer patient, or someone with glaucoma goes to the "club," chooses Maui Wowie or Purple Haze, pays, and in some cases sits down and tokes up right there and then.
Why don't these folks have to go the pharmacy for their drugs like the rest of us? Why is it okay to smoke on the premises of a pot club when we can't open a pint of peach schnapps at the liquor store and start forgetting our worries on the spot? Why is "medical marijuana" different?
When the clubs buy the weed for resale, do they pay taxes on their purchases? When the patients buy the weed, do they? The current system, such as it is, is flawed.
But will we have a measured debate and take even a baby step toward tapping this potential source of revenue? Doubt it. We will have lots of screaming and crying and hyperbole. Red-faced folks will stand toe-to-toe with veins bulging, ears closed and mouths wide open. The measure will go down in resounding defeat.
We can't talk about anything anymore.
My dad thinks it should be legalized, and I see the the merits in this. I just don't think it'll happen either....
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I think that legalizing pot is really a bad idea. Not that I think Pot is bad- its pretty harmless. But when the city of Martinez thinks it is such a good idea that they are going to put it into a building right next to the building where they house all the drug users and mental patients- then I have to think that the only reason for them to do that is money. Not compassion for cancer patients or schitzo's- pure money. What about the little old Italian ladies that have to walk past that place to go to Mass? Or the kids that have to walk that way to school? They won't walk by bars or gambling halls or liquor stores... but a 'medical marijuana house' is ok? Hmmm something is wrong about that- I don't care who you are.
ReplyDeleteI say let the pot users keep getting their pot from the average back yard grower, that way the pot is chemical free ( no additives if you grow it yourself). California would just give that marijuana money for some other dumb social program- no way would they use it for libraries or schools any how...