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Originally Posted by flamefan74
Your number is misleading. If you read the references of the article you posted, the 80,000 number is for all deaths attributed to alcohol including such things as breast cancer,prostate cancer, motor vehicle accidents, falls, alcohol poisoning, etc. The actual alcohol poisoning number itself is small.
I tried to find a number on marijuana deaths, but all I could find was 11.1% of homicides and 7.5% of suicides were attributed to marijuana. Doesn't look like they keep nearly as good of records of those types of deaths. Which you think the government would if they were trying to stop people from using it.
Personally, I would legalize it and tax the hell out of it. But I still think there would be an underground movement that grows it and sells it. No idea what a joint goes for these days. But knowing the government, their price would probably be double the black market.
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Why do you need to 'tax the hell out of it'? Why can't you tax it at a reasonable rate, similar to alcohol? If it's $40 for an eighth, and there's a five or ten dollar tax on that, I think 99% of us would pay for that ease of access at the local 7/11 as opposed to having to go into the residence of someone who was willing to break the law to provide us with this plant.
If you overtax these things, it just creates a second black market, which is exactly what you were trying to avoid in the first place by legalizing it.