HappilyhiketheHump t1_j320zls wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Vermont up to 25 recreational marijuana stores in first three months of legal sales by GivenAllTheFucksSry
I don’t know if the state has “made” money or ever will make money off drug sales.
I’m all for legal pot from a freedom stand point, but there will be real, ongoing costs associated with legal drugs over the long term.
The government “made” money off cigarette taxes too, until the health care costs exploded and ate all that revenue and more in the out years.
I would be interested to see the cost of regulation, enforcement, expansion of state government and government services for drug abusers be tallied and projected so we can see if there is actually a net financial gain to the state’s coffers.
IndefinableMustache t1_j32mo1r wrote
Yeah, I'm sure states like Colorado and Maine regret their decisions. You should look into it since you're so concerned.
blE3p_bl00p t1_j34g94x wrote
Yes .... your logic is flawless. ... just NOW suddenly.... when we have made it legal... NOW we are going to see the repercussions of people smoking it.
No one ever smoked it in mass quantities before it was legal, definitely not.
Weed smokers in their 70s who've been smoking their whole lives aren't a thing. Hippies in Vermont? Never!
And we obviously never spent a dime trying to track down those illegal marijuana grow ops and dealers before..
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There isn't some massive cancer movement coming from weed, they can't even quantify it on a hand eye coordination scale - hence having no real metric to determine a DUI - and states have blown millions of dollars on this repeatedly.
Your comment made me laugh at least.
HappilyhiketheHump t1_j34luhp wrote
Wow. You fell off the deep end there. I hope you are wearing your floaties.
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