Quote:
Originally Posted by Potty
That's a joke, right?
Look at the costs involved with growing weed illegally here. You buy or rent a house, convert it for growing with large-scale electrical modifications and hydroponic equipment for about 500 square feet of actual crops. And you'll probably get busted within a year or two, in which time you pay to set up all over again. And these guys still make MASSIVE profits.
|
I don't agree. There is already a huge production and distribution market for marijuana, it's massive. BC already exports billions of years worth of product a year.
I seriously miss some of the logic behind the 'it will be more expensive argument'. It sounds like people are saying the government will legalize it, grow it, monopolize it, tax it, and then sell low quality, high priced weed. In what economic model does that make any sense, considering the already sizeable black market? What is to prevent this (already illegal) black market from continuing to do it's thing, at the same old cost/price? What's the incentive for someone to buy weed at a vastly inflated price if they don't have to? Especially given all weed smokers are already familiar, by default, with the illegal drug dealer aspect, it's not like legality is an issue for them.
Quote:
Now imagine the government set up a large field, put up a security fence around it with a few security guards and grew acres and acres of pot. They could do it infinitely cheaper than the black market. Each 500 square foot section would cost pennies compared to the costs of setting up a grow-op illegally. Even if they did it indoors, it would still be infinitely cheaper if it was done on a large scale.
Can you grow cucumbers in your basement cheaper than the big greenhouses can? Of course not.
|
Does the government produce all the booze? Any? Roll cigarettes? I don't see why they'd want to get involved at all, it makes no sense to me. Tax it? Sure... but not to the point where it drives all sales to the black market. What's the point? If they made booze $15 a bottle at the liquor store due to tax, what do you think would happen?