Even though I'm not sure what a couple of those things are, I voted to make them all legal, as long as they are regulated and taxed. Remove the need for back-alley transactions, and the crime levels drastically decrease.

Primate @ 27/3/2018 21:22

I mean, do you folks seriously think you should be able to go to Wal-Mart and buy meth, coke, and heroin over the counter. Do you not see an even bigger epidemic than we have now?

If you were a person that would normally buy meth from the guy in the trenchcoat behind the 7-11, I'm sure as hell rather they buy it from a licensed pharmacist inside the Walgreens. Plus, since I don't partake in those things, the tax money from the revenue on those products would help to lower my medical bills. As a non-user, it's a win-win.

Primate @ 27/3/2018 22:55

If you think it's a slam dunk in either direction, you haven't really thought about it. The economics of it are not black and white.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/19/news/colorado-marijuana-tax-revenue/index.html

Colorado is contributing almost $200 million a year to their education system solely from the legalization and taxing of marijuana. In a state like Arkansas, that kind of money could go a long way to bringing our education system out of the bottom 2 or 3 states pretty quickly.


If people are going to do the drugs anyway, you might as well legalize them (to make them safer -- stricter manufacturing standards, for example) and tax them, and get some benefit to society instead of financing local gangs and foreign drug cartel leaders. Just the act of legalizing pot would go a long ways to making the border between Mexico and the U.S. a whole lot safer place to be.