Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Tucked away on page A3 was this nugget today in the SA Express News
The President of Guatemala will propose legalizing the transportation of drugs through Central America in a meeting with regional leaders this week.
The enlightenment gets better. "I would not be a crime to transport or move drugs. It would all have to be regulated.'
Translation - taxed, that way the druggies can stop fighting the military, pay the toll and certainly pass it on to the user.
Now turn ot page A 17.
Marijuana Taxes Help Cities, States
Oakland CA will double the number of marijuana dispensaries hoping to improve on the $1.4 M in taxes it collected last years. Now the good part
This is general rund revenue it all goes in the melting pot, said the city's tax and revenue administrator.
Gee was that an intentional pun?
FDR finally gave up on Prohibition rationalizing it could be a revenue source during hte dperession. The Failed war on drugs will end the same way.
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Posted by: crime scene cleanup | February 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Wasn't prohibition intended to stop the use of alcohol by the consumer? Legalizing the transportation of drugs is not the same as legalizing drugs. So, as I see it, Guatemala is only acting to eliminate a conflict. If other such countries do this, they will merely be in the drug transportation business, and unless we in the United States legalize its use, there will still be a "war" on drugs, because the drugs will move freely to our border and then still have to be sneaked in somehow. Incidentally, I don't see the American people condoning legalization of drugs any time soon.
Posted by: Luis Martinez | February 19, 2012 at 11:23 PM
Yes this really puts Central American countries in business with the drug cartel rather than putting them out of business. No doubt the politicians are weary of not making the big bucks from the drug trade. This would allow them to do so legally.
Posted by: Dennis Elam | February 20, 2012 at 07:07 AM