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Originally Posted by globaldesigns
That is the problem, tobacco or alchohol would never be illegal as there is way tooooo much moula for the government. Remember what we would pay for either is mostly tax. Imagine if they taxed fast food like they do with cigs or alchohol, I happy meal would be $15 bucks then.
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I would pay $15.00 for a happy meal if a whole chicken cost $4.00 any day

!Considering it all comes down to taxes,
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A recent report from the RCMP says Canada's marijuana trade (nearly half of which is based in B.C.) is worth about $7.5 billion annually and is connected to weapons and explosives trafficking, cocaine smuggling and stock market fraud.-http://mostlywater.org
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Pro's of legalization:
-$7.5 Billion taxed instead of smuggled out of the country.
-Countless lives saved from the elimination of drug violence and all the BS that goes along with it.
-Think of the burden off the court and police/ EMS systems, instead of having to deal with grow house's burning down they can be ready for us to have heart attacks from the McDonald's we eat

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If you get a chance watch the Union, very informative documentary.