and they get revenue... And less spent on policing a weed and subsidizing courts and jails and police... It's kind of a no brainer to most.

There's a whole lot of money in marijuana for drug dealers and their counterparts. Both of them usually make money off the customers, either by fining (and maybe imprisoning) some poor folks or buy charging them outrageous prices for something that could easily be made much, much less expensive.

Billions of dollars worth of assets have been seized as a result of the war on drugs. It's a huge business on both sides of the law. The question, ultimately, will be whether it is more profitable to legalize it and bring in the revenue... or leave things as they are. Either way, many special interests are involved and they tend to have more money than those of us who aren't special interests.

nation has done.

"We are winning the war on drugs." - this was 34 YEARS AGO!!!!!!
I just laughed my ass off.

It would end a lot of problems.

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....considering that it's coming out of Indiana. The religious right up there will bury this guy.

But really, if this is coming out of Indiana, it definitely is a sign of things to come. Finally.

... if states in after legalizing pot decide to use the tax revenue to hire more cops.

Then tax it! Me thinks this is an excellent idea way pass its' time!

After it is legalized, you still have to pay for some costs of incarceration for decades to come.

Marijuana does not. No brainer!

Time to bring it on. 100% Pot Tax. Of course, pot prices will fall precipitously once we can grow it anywhere, so the tax won't even matter.