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why legallizing pot won't work

Kimpatsu said:

Nice ad hominem, but note that your argument must then be with Thoreau, whom MM was only quoting...
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:dl: :dl: :dl:

This is funny for more than three reasons.
 
He said the government cannabis was too finely ground up with stems and leaves, calling it "shwag" or "bunk," street terminology for the lowest grade of marijuana.
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This is what you get when you have a team of researchers and scientists all working on a project such as this, they all have first pick at the best buds..

Somewhat incidentally, doesn't the US government still provide medicinal marijuana to about three people as a legacy from a sixties investigation into the medical benefits?
 
Kimpatsu said:

Don't keep us in suspense; what are these reasons of yours?
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My argument is not with Thoreau. I just thought that it was extremly ironic that a person who espouses views such as Mr Manifesto's would trod out such a concept.
 
Mr Manifesto said:


There is a big illegal tobacco market in Australia (aka 'Chop-chop'), but it's for tax reasons. That's what happens when you tax the living Christ out of a product. I'm surprised that there isn't an illegal alcohol market as well. I assume the reason for this is that it's simple to brew your own (I wouldn't know where to get a tobacco seed if my cags depended on it).
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Now that you mention it, there is also an "illegal" cigarette market in the US. The scam is, people will go to, say, Kentucky, a place with low taxes on cigarettes, and buy them at wholesale price. Once they have a truck load of smokes, they traffic them to a state such as New York, where the cigarette tax is higher, they then proceed to sell the cigs at a greater price than they bought them for in Kentucky, but at a cheaper price than in New York.
 
Mr Manifesto said:
I'm surprised that there isn't an illegal alcohol market as well.
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There is in Britain. People import cheap (untaxed) alcohol from France, and sell it in the UK cheaply.
 
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