MasterP said:
They most likely won’t because it’ll become an expensive legal nightmare
That’s what I meant.
MasterP said:
Everytime marijuana legalization comes up this is stated and it makes no sense. At all. If I go rob a bank in California you think they’ll let me go because the prisons are too crowded? Of course not. They’ll tell Bubba and Big Al to make their new cellmate feel at home.
Just because the prisons are crowded doesn’t mean the people who commit crimes aren’t criminals. It means you need to stop spending millions of dollars on special interest pork projects and build more prisons.
I think the logic is, millions of people don’t rob banks; yet millions of people do smoke pot or have occasionally. In the end we are just wasting money, creating B class citizens, and taking up resources (cops, prisons, etc) that could be used for more serious criminals like the rapists, bank robbers, thiefs, murderers, etc.
I could understand if it made money for the government. Come to think of it, at the real local rural level, cops make bank off of kids smoking. Once you get to millions of people though, big cities like New York, states like California, combatting marijuana just gets to be a useless tax wasting amount of garbage.
You’re the free market man right? Why not legalize it, privatize it, slap a tax and regulate it like tobacco and alcohol, and make some money?