It looks like economics are getting closer to catching up with the pervasive reality that Marijuana is an important constant in a countries GDP. If you think there's grit and shit in it now, wait till the FEDS get hold of it legally:
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/98317/
They cite $55 a week for 40 million smokers in the USA! LOL, When you think that a quarter of skunk is £50, I'd say they're playing down the economioc value by at least half.
:)
Illegal drugs are big
Illegal drugs are big business! Got to be one of the most lucrative products out there, thanks mainly to efforts to ban them :-) The last estimate I saw even in the tiny island that is the UK is that the trade as a whole was worth £8 billion. There's some tax revenue to be had there for sure. And much as I resent how the Government spends/wastes a lot of the money it gets its hands on, it's probably better that it goes there than to the criminal underground...
Hopefully, quality control would remove the contamination in a legal product...but who knows what they'd replace it with? :-)
Definitely..........
Indiscernable poison.
Every little helps.
A drug free generation
Why strive for a drug-free generation, when nerve-gas is invisible?