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Originally Posted by 4X4
Because it's ridiculous that it's illegal. If everything unhealthy or possibly not good for you was illegal, then we wouldn't have table salt, girl guide cookies, or a day at the beach.
And since it's no better or worse than lots of other things that are regularly consumed, the amount of money spent on prosecuting it instead of the possible amount gained from taxing it is huge.
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Of course it's no better or worse, still we continue to learn nothing from the past. Governments work hard at trying to get people to live a healthy life style yet turn into hypocrites when they decide to legalise another product that harms us.
As for the almightly tax dollar, don't tell me it's not a huge reasoning behind legalisation. The below article demonstrates why it would be a benefit to the province of BC
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A new study calculates British Columbians' pot purchases total about half a billion dollars each year, and the pro-legalization researchers conducting the study say that means the province could be bringing in massive tax revenues.
Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University sought to quantify the retail value of marijuana sold on the black market.
They looked at the price of marijuana and research that suggests more than 366,000 people in B.C. use pot to estimate the pot industry is worth between $443 million and $564 million a year.
The researchers also point to data from Washington, which recently held a successful referendum to legalize pot, that suggests the same number of pot smokers in that state could bring in $2.5 billion in taxes over five years in a regulated system.
They say the revenues could be used to fund addictions programs and health care, similar to the new system set to be rolled out in Washington and Colorado, where the public recently voted to legalize the drug.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...ized-1.1127751