The Aspen Times, 22 Mar 2013 – Maybe because he’s a self-professed hardcore stoner for more than 30 years that legitimized him, but a guy wrote a guest piece in The Denver Post the other day about the legalization of pot in Colorado that explained in a few sentences what I haven’t been able to say clearly in about five years. He said it so calmly. He didn’t waste words. It was like an out-loud train of unconscious thought, but it made sense to me, y’all. I wish I’d written down his name, but I wasn’t really motivated. No worries. Let me summarize what he said: It’s not going to work. Think about why we voted to legalize weed. It wasn’t because most of us think smoking pot is a good, healthy, wholesome alternative to clear lungs and thinking. The two biggest reasons we legalized the stuff are, one, that we are hopelessly losing the war on drugs and throwing away valuable resources on it, and, two, since people are going to smoke it anyway, we might as well tax the crap out of it and use the windfall to make better schools.
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