News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: PUB LTE: Legal Pot Would Yield Tax Revenue |
| Title: | CN BC: PUB LTE: Legal Pot Would Yield Tax Revenue |
| Published On: | 2005-03-18 |
| Source: | Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-16 20:33:06 |
LEGAL POT WOULD YIELD TAX REVENUE
The rumrunners of long ago are the pot-growers of today. What people want
- -- be it booze or pot -- they are going to get it, one way or another.
We are slowly -- ever so slowly -- creeping toward the sensible approach of
governments legalizing, controlling and taxing a product that is unstoppable.
Governments are experiencing diminishing returns on tobacco taxes as more
and more smokers quit or die.
They are missing the boat on the logical replacement.
Bob Clarke,
Victoria.
The rumrunners of long ago are the pot-growers of today. What people want
- -- be it booze or pot -- they are going to get it, one way or another.
We are slowly -- ever so slowly -- creeping toward the sensible approach of
governments legalizing, controlling and taxing a product that is unstoppable.
Governments are experiencing diminishing returns on tobacco taxes as more
and more smokers quit or die.
They are missing the boat on the logical replacement.
Bob Clarke,
Victoria.
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