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Arthur:

What is it with you and beer pong? :-)

Elsewhere, while discussing alcohol beverages (and drinking games in particular), I mentioned that beer pong distills to licking a ping pong ball that has been rolling along a filthy floor, and consequently should be avoided (at least, as commonly played). Someone responded: “You are old.”

The “you are old” comment seemed apt in the context of how Republicans are likely to be viewed as marijuana decriminalization unfolds.

That’s it.

The US excise tax on marijuana (1937) was ruled unconstitutional in 1969(?) because it was written and enforced primarily as a means of forcing self-incrimination. But, a federal excise tax could easily be written with the intent of gathering revenue.

Ryan Waxx says:
As long as it’s real legalization, instead of having doctors set up shops to “prescribe” it, good.

Count me in as well, long over due.

Oh and I’d like a preemptive ban on suing over pot risks so we can avoid that silliness of suing over tobacco (yes, you got cancer and everyone knew it was a possibility).

Presumably no pot-companies are going to go come out and claim that smoking pot does not elevate the risk of cancer.

Just wait until someone introduces a clause that links the tax levels to those of cigarettes…

Fine by me.

The real question — is this a shift in attitudes or cohort replacement.

JP: The hope is to tax marijuana the way tobacco is currently taxed — very highly.

Do you think they have any idea of the different effects of tobacco and marijuana? I mean tobacco is a stimulant and marijuana… isn’t. Just how much do they think they’re going to collect in taxes?

JP: Expect when marijuana becomes legal tobacco will become illegal — as that seems to be what is being planned.

I agree.
As someone who smokes neither but thinks that the pot ban is an indefensible position that undermines our position on other drugs, we can’t legalize this soon enough.
Turn it over to RJR and the FDA.
Oh and I’d like a preemptive ban on suing over pot risks so we can avoid that silliness of suing over tobacco (yes, you got cancer and everyone knew it was a possibility).

What is it with you and beer pong? :-)

Ryan Waxx: Just wait until someone introduces a clause that links the tax levels to those of cigarettes…

In California, Tom Ammiano is one of the main proponents and he is also one of the main proponents of things like outdoor smoking bans, tobacco retailing bans, tobacco and tobacco related paraphernalia special business licensing restrictions and local tobacco “fees” on top of state taxes – so the legalization of marijuana is on a see-saw with the criminalization of tobacco, which in most of Northern California is already defacto – illegal.

The hope is to tax marijuana the way tobacco is currently taxed – very highly.

This is a push by Northern California marijuana growers to increase their market size by having it become legal.

Already, in Santa Cruz, California, USA, marijuana is the highest yielding crop and also the county in which most tobacco smoking has been banned outdoors and in some cases, tobacco “possession” is now illegal and subject to arrest and confiscation.

Expect when marijuana becomes legal tobacco will become illegal – as that seems to be what is being planned.

The big winners would be American citizens and liberty. And producers of Doritos, caramel-fudge brownies and candy bars.

Legalization of marijuana would be a long overdue development, in my judgment.

Cornellian: It will be nice to see something on the ballot that isn’t about banning something or borrowing or spending money.

Just wait until someone introduces a clause that links the tax levels to those of cigarettes…

Full legalization may come (after Raich v. Gonzalez is overturned [a while] or after a filibuster proof majority in the Senate [a long while]), but until then, the 5-10% of the population that is sitting on the fence may agree to “decriminalization” but not “legalization”. For example, see the situation in Massachusetts (nothing but a ticket for possession, full federal slammer for production / distribution).

The main public ill of marijuana use is the money it provides the underworld. Decriminalization just increases this ill. Let’s continue to legalization.