Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>
>> And surely you can get it through your head that laws can be changed.
>> Booze was illegal in the US for a while. The law changed. Pot is
>> illegal now. There is no good reason for it. If it is a matter of
>> morality, like the Prohibition of liquor was, then legalizing one vice
>> sets a precedent. Opening stores on Sundays used to be illegal too.
>> That law changed.
>
> Exactly. A lot of it has to do with tax revenues also. When the coffers
> start to run dry a new source of tax revenue needs to be found. Voila,
> alcohol was then legal. When that was taxed to death something else
> needed to be found. It goes on and on. I suspect when government finds a
> way to regulate weed sales the sale of it will become legal and a whole
> new source of tax revenue will be generated. They'd better be quick. Tax
> revenue on tobacco sales is shrinking because fewer people are smoking.

I really hate the idea of the government incarcerating people for a vice
on the basis of their not being a way for them to impose taxes.