TAX the SMOKERS?

[Jens]

Just legalize all of it, start selling it in gas stations, liquor stores, supermarkets, tax the hell out of it.  They will make money off of it tax-wise, dealers will be off the streets, prisons will be relieved of dead weight that pulls our taxes, free market economy will take over.  Here is something that I think a lot of people don't get, things aren't taboo, until you make them so.  Kinda like where I live, since the interstate went in in the '50's, our hood has been the wrong side of the tracks.  There can't be a wrong side, if there are no tracks.  People do all of these drugs, including all of the legal ones, because of the high they get from them, then they get addicted, plain and simple.  Now, some people don't get addicted to any of it.  Some people wouldn't do them in the first place if it wasn't illegal, because that is part of the addiction.  We already enable our people enough to kill themselves 6 ways till Sunday as it is, so why pull punches? 

Like I said, legalize it, tax the hell out of it!  I know for one, that this ghetto would be a lot safer!

[glenn kangiser]

I have had to fire 3 alcoholics but many druggers.  The alcoholics were less apt to make problems for me.

If I am working in the air on a steel beam and one of them is working with me I want to be sure they have all of their faculties.  The dopers were the hardest to deal with on the job as they always lied about it and tried to hide it.  3 of them nearly got me sued for not completing the job and doing meth on it, and one of them burned $60 worth of welding rod into a puddle on top a beam near the roof to cover his smoking dope. 

Another ground the ends of his fingers off after his joint at lunch.  Another couldn't figure out what to do so he sat down to smoke a joint and think about it ten went home.  Another stole a drill given to me by a friend who died of leukemia along with many other things(he  stole).  Another stole gas and left the hose and can by his car as he slept it off.

Maybe I cut them too much slack and it's my fault but I have had it with them.  I just use people I can trust now.

[Jens]

Maybe I cut them too much slack and it's my fault but I have had it with them.  I just use people I can trust now.

Yeah, well, gotta be able to trust your guys.  That just sucks dude.  druggies suck.  My whole point is, they are going to do it regardless, might as well generate tax revenue from it, keep it as safe as it can be (purely manufactured), and get the crime element out of the equation.