I figured out Universal Healthcare and Education for America =)

[Wiccan Warrior]

Legalize pot sell it for $20 a pack regulate it tax it %10 and use the $$ from that..so simple and it would free up our Prisons of simple users of pot who hurt no one.

[Dr.Phool]

1. You make too much sense.

Therefore it's a bad idea.

Sell it for $40, and we can retire the national debt.

[Wiccan Warrior]

2. Sorry didn't mean to make a rational thought my bad n/t

[dorkulon]

3. Good idea, but we could also halve the defense budget with little effect.

That way we could charge $10 a pack! :headbang:

[Yael]

6. Legalize it and worldwide -- we may not need a defense budget. Heh

Free the weed!

[Warpy]

4. At $20/pack you'd be realizing taxes of about 50%

because the only thing holding the price of pot up is its illegality.

Not only that, but the average head will go through a pack a month, usually on weekends, and that's sharing with friends. I'm afraid the sales won't be high enough (pun unintended) to fund much of anything but the regulation and taxation, itself.

However, getting all nonviolent drug offenders out of prison would help. In fact, release all people convicted of victimless crimes by the nanny state. The very term "victimless crime" is an oxymoron.

[Solo_in_MD]

5. That is about as dumb as financing healthcare by taxing cigarettes

smoking of *anything*is declining, and that is a good thing. Basing necessary infrastructure funding on sin taxes (which is what you are suggesting), means as its use wanes, the funds have to come from some where else.

We need to be honest and place required items on a solid funding base. Sin taxes is not solid.

[Wiccan Warrior]

9. Why thank you for your input =)

[JohnShadows]

7. People would grow their own, probably - and no way it ...

... would go for just $20 a 'pack'.

[B Calm]

8. Depends on the quality of pot being bought..