Legality day one netted my state $250,000 in tax revenue.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Didn't someone we know once insist that tax revenue would be nowhere NEAR the millions predicted?

Look, is being right ALL that important, when you have assets to think about?  You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, and you can't protect your assets without ruining some children's lives.  So tax money isn't that big of a deal, right?  Though I suppose you COULD use that tax money to pay for more prisons for people who are too Black guilty for diversion.

[The Johnny]

that revenue is nowhere near to paying for social costs though   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

that revenue is nowhere near to paying for social costs though   

Billions of children dead from injecting the pot drug:  Priceless.

For everything else, there's millions and millions in revenue.

[The Johnny]

that revenue is nowhere near to paying for social costs though   

Billions of children dead from injecting the pot drug:  Priceless.

For everything else, there's millions and millions in revenue.

well, as long as its the right type of children, then technically one IS reducing social cost... you need to be alive to waste/spend money and budget

[The Good Reverend Roger]

that revenue is nowhere near to paying for social costs though   

Billions of children dead from injecting the pot drug:  Priceless.

For everything else, there's millions and millions in revenue.

well, as long as its the right type of children, then technically one IS reducing social cost... you need to be alive to waste/spend money and budget

You want to hear something funny about Americans, Johnny?

They think the drugs are in the poor neighborhoods.   

Any teenage crack dealer can tell you that you go where the money is.  It's the middle class/rich kids do the serious shit.

[Junkenstein]

Same goes in the UK, with the same logic.

Why sell E at £3/pill when you can get £10? Just imagine what you can make out of the ever rebellious weed.

[The Johnny]

that revenue is nowhere near to paying for social costs though   

Billions of children dead from injecting the pot drug:  Priceless.

For everything else, there's millions and millions in revenue.

well, as long as its the right type of children, then technically one IS reducing social cost... you need to be alive to waste/spend money and budget

You want to hear something funny about Americans, Johnny?

They think the drugs are in the poor neighborhoods.   

Any teenage crack dealer can tell you that you go where the money is.  It's the middle class/rich kids do the serious shit.

oh, well i think thats a bit of a universal representation of drugs=poor people... nobody does the math on how much cocaine, heroin or acids/synthetics cost for a frequent user... poor addicts resort to other kinds which are cheaper like meth or crack... so the only variance is budget and type of drug.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I wonder how long it will be until "POT IS A GATEWAY DRUG" just completely devolves into "DON'T SMOKE POT, YOU'LL TURN BLACK."

[Reginald Ret]

I wonder how long it will be until "POT IS A GATEWAY DRUG" just completely devolves into "DON'T SMOKE POT, YOU'LL TURN BLACK."

[Left]

It's not that poor people do more drugs; it's that poor people go to jail for doing drugs. But y'all knew that.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/florida-rep-trey-radel-pleads-guilty-cocaine-possession/story?id=20949551

[Pergamos]

I wonder how long it will be until "POT IS A GATEWAY DRUG" just completely devolves into "DON'T SMOKE POT, YOU'LL TURN BLACK."

I think it evolved the other way.  Wasn't that the basic message of Reefer Madness?

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I wonder how long it will be until "POT IS A GATEWAY DRUG" just completely devolves into "DON'T SMOKE POT, YOU'LL TURN BLACK."

I think it evolved the other way.  Wasn't that the basic message of Reefer Madness?

Yeah, but it never really got far from that source, and the 21st century seems to be all about scrambling to give up what little progress was made in the 20th.

[Cain]

I'm pretty sure we could quantify this by seeing what percentage of articles about pot in the US media directly referenced or interviewed Snoop Dog.

[Pergamos]

I'm pretty sure we could quantify this by seeing what percentage of articles about pot in the US media directly referenced or interviewed Snoop Dog.

I didn't read any that referenced him, didn't he move to Jamaica and change his name?

[Cain]

I didn't read any that referenced him

Well then you weren't trying very hard, were you?