Time to rethink Pot

I read this article below as part of a Billion dollar pot bust this week in California.

"The federal government is not going to pull back on its efforts to curtail marijuana farming operations, Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Wednesday in Fresno.

The nation's drug czar, who viewed a foothill marijuana farm on U.S. Forest Service land with state and local officials earlier Wednesday, said the federal government will not support legalizing marijuana."Legalization is not in the president's vocabulary, and it's not in mine," he said."

Do you think a federal or state government with over a trillion dollars of debit can ignore the tax potential of legalization and tax on marijuana? I don't.

California has moved quietly into this opportunity by taxing the sale of marijuana at "medical marijuana stores." Nearly everyone knows these stores are really the first steps toward legalization. Anyone who wants to buy marijuana, can walk in and claim some problem only to have an on-site physician write a prescription.

I think it is time for us to decide what our priorities are with regard to government at the Federal, State, and City level. We need to stop funding the silly war on drugs. We lost that battle 30 years ago. Anyone who wants to get high is getting all the drugs they want.

It makes no sense to me that we watch TV and see dozens of Drug ads for erectile dysfunction and other made up new age diseases while we still pay billions to fight marijuana. We could reduce the national debit by stopping the war on drugs and taxing marijuana consumption, just as we do alcohol and tobacco.