tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342651855089974722.post6866446140934156785..comments2023-10-22T07:09:40.782-04:00Comments on Old: Could pot be legal in California next year?Stephen Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12118017106106571684noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342651855089974722.post-32113007012991317432010-06-22T11:38:14.323-04:002010-06-22T11:38:14.323-04:00I've never heard of people so excited about th...I've never heard of people so excited about the prospect of new taxation as in the cannabis legalization movement. And the thing is, it can't even possibly generate that much revenue, since marijuana is extremely price elastic.<br /><br />And it's sad to me that civil rights consciousness now favors governments over individuals to the degree that the argument has shifted from "I should be able to do whatever I want with my own body - *clack clack* stop me" (to paraphrase Doug Stanhope) to "you can tax me for what I do to my own body."<br /><br />This proposed bill is shameful, but we're at a point where governments have us by the balls to the extent that even the fragile sliver of recovered freedom it represents makes me hope it passes.Eyedunnonoreply@blogger.com