you know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Legalized Marijuana.
How many people have gone to jail for a little reefer madness? Wars have been fought, empires over thrown, people murdered in cold blood to get a little plant to the people who want it.
And now, it’s over.
It’s prohibition ends all over again.
Welcome to the Evergreen state, where weed is now legal.
I watched video on World News Tonight as the clock struck 12 and a new day dawned.
At 12:01 the state enacted it’s brand new “smoke em if you got em” law.
Did law makers bang a gavel to commemorate the historic legislation?
Nope.
Pot heads took the streets of Seattle, counted down like it was New Year’s Eve in NYC and then they sparked up.
You could literally see them get stupider by the minute.
“It’s great! Why hide it,” some reject from a Grateful Dead marathon said in between tokes.
In case you missed it, and somehow, most of us did, It’s now totally legal to smoke pot for pleasure in Washington as long as you are 21.
And smoke they did.
It’s a “CAN’T BEAT EM, MIGHT AS WELL JOIN EM” philosophy.
And now it’s touted by stuffed shirts and neck ties as a way to generate revenue in a time when people don’t way pay extra taxes for anything, especially something that starts out as a seed in a pile of cow manure.
I’m not sure how much the private sector will realize from this landmark legislation. My prediction is billions. At last check, the alcohol lobby is doing ok.
As far as the public sector goes….
By some estimates this year alone, Washington State will pull in 500 million dollars in taxes thanks to ganja.
That’s a lot of green from a lot of green brah.
It’s reportedly enough to fund the Seattle Police Department all year long. The Seattle Police department subsidized by drug revenue? Now that’s ironic.
So many things could be subsidized around this great nation of ours. We should tax every vice there is. Don’t legislate morality. Tax it. Freedom of choice. You wanna get high, pay up. You wanna a hooker, pay up.
Society as a whole could benefit by taxing something once thought so bad.
Smoke em if you got em Seattle. Now pay up, Johnny needs a text book.
So while the populous gets stupider and has a strong desire to eat Cheetohs, the tax base is getting high as a kite.
And there in lies the rub.
Pot = money = controversy=money=sin.
Pot use to make drug pushers rich. Now drug dealers will be replaced with “Potrepreneurs” as they are called. They are new millennium businessmen who plan to open up sophisticated smoke shops like some kind of ganja oriented Starbucks selling premium spleef.
So Washington is the first to inhale. Colorado is next. The rest of the nation is watching. How much money will legalizing pot create? A dump truck full! Will we be able to tell the Chinese to kiss our collective dope smoking ass? maybe.
And if pot is legalized today, can prostitution be far behind.
Damn I hope so.
Talk about a work force that needs a little governmental regulation.
Clean it up, regulate health standards, get the girls some comfortable shoes. I’m just saying.
And that is crazy.™