Gupta Changes Course on Medical Marijuana

[Coolazice]

Marijuana and prostitution are still illegal because they haven't found a way to collect the tax dollars 'due to the US Government' from both the provider and the consumer of those 2 items. It has nothing to due with the morals or values of most politicians or a good percentage of the population anymore. Find a way to collect tax dollars from all parties involved and a lot of other drugs and activities would be legalized (provided that it didn't disturb the profits of Big Pharma too much).

[Cdsnuts]

They found a way to do it with Marijuana in California.....Fed's are still busting "legal" businesses. Washington and Colorado have the right idea......Feds will still probably try their "illegal" actions against them.

[ryhigh]

Marijuana and prostitution are still illegal because they haven't found a way to collect the tax dollars 'due to the US Government' from both the provider and the consumer of those 2 items. It has nothing to due with the morals or values of most politicians or a good percentage of the population anymore. Find a way to collect tax dollars from all parties involved and a lot of other drugs and activities would be legalized (provided that it didn't disturb the profits of Big Pharma too much).

Local governments already make a ton here from medical marijuana. The weed clinics pay a $250,000 city tax and a $750,000 state tax to open a clinic. Plus yearly taxes, so much potential money for the gov

[Coolazice]

Local governments already make a ton here from medical marijuana. The weed clinics pay a $250,000 city tax and a $750,000 state tax to open a clinic. Plus yearly taxes, so much potential money for the gov

I'm sure they are collecting a lot of cash! But, that isn't anything more than a drop in the bucket compared to what is out there being sold illegally... they still want a bigger piece of the pie. The stuff being sold illegally is where they can't collect and why it is still illegal in the vast majority states. What I'm saying is if they were pretty much guaranteed to collect almost all the tax money like they do from alcohol and tobacco, then more things would be legal. They have no idea how to regulate it like other items have been.