[kipperfan]

If Congress was smart and forward thinking (and not the Teabaggers they are) they would start talking about legalizing pot federally and then, of course, taxing it federally. I'm no economist and have no interest in sitting here and trying to run numbers, but common sense tells me that making pot legal and open for purchase nationwide would generate billions per year in tax revenue alone. Not only that, but I would again have to think that billions per year would be saved (or diverted at the very least) nationwide in no longer enforcing or prosecuting existing MJ related laws (with a few exceptions of course).

Federal legalization and the subsequent sale and taxation of pot could easily solve the fiscal cliff/debt ceiling crisis and could possibly be the start of balancing the budget and eliminating the deficit long term. Just think of how much a move like this could start to rejuvenate the Republican image among younger voters, especially those younger voters (a lot, I would guess) who are right leaning fiscally but left leaning socially.

But hey, God says drugs are bad, so who cares about the $$ or the science (or what the American people want)...pot IS bad!