Quote Originally Posted by ryhigh View Post
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.