Taxing the Ganja.

[invidscrim]

  On paper, taxing marijuana looks like a good idea.  In reality, I don't see the great income of taxes from it that people are imagining.  Once you make it legal to grow, own and use, you can just grow your own.  No tax income generated there.  If you don't grow your own, the great American entrepreneur next down or just down the street will be

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[pharna]

Dude, Sonoma, Humbolt and Mendicino don't make up the Emerald Triangle for nothing, LOL.

If the government sold certified weed, that could make some money. Growing weed, easy. Growing GOOD weed? Not quite as easy. At least, so said my pot heads who paid me out the ass to tend their plants on vacation...

[sugarcreamcandy]

I disagree. I mean look at alcohol, people buy that all the time cause no one wants to make it even though making beer and stuff really isnt all that difficult. Also they have the choice to ban the at home growing of marijuana so that could still be illegal and then make it so you have to have a permit to grow it and to sell it (similar to alcohol), and then to tax it ontop of that would bring in plenty of income, Im not really sure why you would think otherwise

[invidscrim]

Alcohol is easy to make, me and my friends use to brew our own beer in the dorms when I was in the Air Force. But growing a plant is even easier. Growing pot at home is already illegal but that hasn't stopped anyone from doing it anyways. If we use alcohol as an example of how pot would be handled, the growing of it at home would be legal anyways. You can make your own alcohol up to a certain amount of each type per year without having to declare to the BATF. I see pot as doing the same, you could grow up to a certain amount without declaration of production. Taxes would be taken on any amount over the "personal" use amount