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Originally Posted by Shazam
They can raise revenue by taxing the hell out of pot!
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Though again, if they raise taxes too much on it, there would be no incentive for people to buy it legally, they'd just keep doing what they've always been doing, buying it illegally. If Beer cost $10/can at the liquor store (due to taxes), and your buddy brewed his own for $0.25/can, you'd be buying from him before the store, obviously. There's a cost vs. convenience trade-off, and right now it is verrrry convenient to buy marijuana illegally at the market price. There would be no point to the government legalizing it just to tax it out of a reasonable price bracket.