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Old 03-27-2017, 11:27 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by jayswin View Post
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/libe...-pot-1.4041902

Figured I'd start a new thread as there's been discussion for a couple years but now we've got a date. It's definitely further away than I thought it was going to be.

Might as well add my post from the Canadian politics thread to add something to the discussion.

CaptainCrunch -

"Tax the crap out of it" is what everyone has said for years when they don't like it but begrudgingly admit that it's the right thing to do, but you can't do that. You tax it properly and accept that it's better for society to legalize it.

If you make it really expensive or tax the crap out of it you're going to lose business to the black market and then what's the point of legalizing it? The idea that the government is competing with drug dealers on price and potency of a drug sounds absurd, but.......the government is competing with drug dealers on price and potency.
So you put up my original response, your answer to it, but not my response to that?
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