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Originally Posted by alltherage
Yes, they would be using better equipment... but they would be doing so with mass production in mind. How do you think McDonalds produces a double cheeseburger for $1.69? Could you do that at home? McDonalds no doubt has much more expensive equipment, no?
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You can buy 1/10 of a pound of low quality ground beef at your local supermarket for much cheaper. So yes I could produce a tiny cheeseburger at home for less than $1.69. I could probably do it for under 50 cents.
If I was purchasing beef grown under illegal and unsafe conditions, I could probably do it even cheaper.
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Originally Posted by alltherage
Also when you factor these taxes in, you are not considering the fact that marijuana can be consumed safely. It would not be something that leads to massive casualties like cigarettes do. There would be no back end costs in hospitals etc etc.
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Do you really think the price of cigarettes is actually based on back end costs? It's been shown time and time again that cigarette smoking may actually save money to the health care system. Everyone dies of something. Dieing at the age of 70 vs. 90 saves the health care system massive amounts of money. Stroke and lung cancer (2 of the most common causes of smoking related deaths) are also extremely aggressive disease that kill you quickly. Much cheaper to die of a stroke or lung cancer at 70 than tax the system with prostate, liver, arthritis, etc.. issues through ages 70-90.