Do you favor legalizing drugs

Quote: hwccdealer

If we're going with one or the other of those two, we have to take cigarettes off the legal list, because those are a bitch to quit. Of course, we could do the same for alcohol as well, knowing how many lives it has taken.

Or we could just educate people from the ground up how to be responsible with alcohol, pot, etc. and fund universal rehab for people with addictions. Nah, that's crazy. Tossing people in prison for a small amount of pot and turning them into hardened criminals so the prisons and police departments can rake in insane amounts in money and stuff is so much better.

Although cigarettes are as addictive or more than heroin according to some sources, they are far cheaper and the act of quitting does not kill you. In addition, cigarettes do not get you high. Nicotine, in my opinion, is not a dangerous drug any more than caffeine or tylenol (although tobacco is more dangerous), and is no more addicting than pizza to a big person and sleeping pills to the insomniac. Whether or not you agree with that opinion, it is established the real health hazard with cigarettes is carcinogens. I have always found comparisons between cigarettes and heroin to be false equivalencies. Unlike the OP, I think more drugs than heroin should be illegal. But cigarettes would not be on that list.

Finally, some good news: Kansas is trying to collect tax revenue from drug dealers. The Kansas Dept of Revenue promises they won't arrest dealers who self-incriminate themselves. All they are asking is for dealers to pay $3.50 per gram of marijuana. (For those of us in America, that means $98 per ounce.) That's bad, but not outrageous. For dealers who sell pills (MDMA, Oxy, Vicodin, etc) the tax is $2,000 per pill. Now that is outrageous.

This might surprise you, but for some reason it's not working: there are no drug dealers lining up at the Taxpayer Assistance Center in Topeka between 8am and 4pm.

Kansas is not alone in demanding that drug dealers pay their fair share of taxes. Some ten to twenty states have (or once had) legislation setting tax rates on illegal drugs. The federal government once set taxes on weed under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, and the IRS still asks Americans to report income from bribes, drug dealing, and extortion.

Police in Arizona & Wisconsin have used the used the tax as evidence to prosecute drug dealers, which might explain why dealers are so reluctant to pay it. Also, drug dealers don't like taxes.

Quote: reno

Police in Arizona & Wisconsin have used the used the tax as evidence to prosecute drug dealers, which might explain why dealers are so reluctant to pay it.

That's the answer right there. If you're doing something illegal, you don't let someone else document your activities. Granted many criminals are stupid, they're not that stupid.

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Also, drug dealers don't like taxes.

Unlike law-abiding citizens who just love to pay taxes? ;)

Quote: reno

Finally, some good news: Kansas is trying to collect tax revenue from drug dealers. The Kansas Dept of Revenue promises they won't arrest dealers who self-incriminate themselves. All they are asking is for dealers to pay $3.50 per gram of marijuana. (For those of us in America, that means $98 per ounce.) That's bad, but not outrageous. For dealers who sell pills (MDMA, Oxy, Vicodin, etc) the tax is $2,000 per pill. Now that is outrageous.

This might surprise you, but for some reason it's not working: there are no drug dealers lining up at the Taxpayer Assistance Center in Topeka between 8am and 4pm.

Kansas is not alone in demanding that drug dealers pay their fair share of taxes. Some ten to twenty states have (or once had) legislation setting tax rates on illegal drugs. The federal government once set taxes on weed under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, and the IRS still asks Americans to report income from bribes, drug dealing, and extortion.

Police in Arizona & Wisconsin have used the used the tax as evidence to prosecute drug dealers, which might explain why dealers are so reluctant to pay it. Also, drug dealers don't like taxes.

Thanks to this post I fell down a Wikipedia hole about Timothy Leary and "turn on, tune in, drop opt."

Quote: Timothy Leary

Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity."

lol

i vote for pot, don't nedd many drugs)

I'm voting YES for pot. It always had that medicinal property to it. Other drugs may exhibit the same feature, but they're more harmful when abused, compared to pot.

Marijuana should be legalized. At least you are not aggressive when you are stoned