MPP's Bruce Mirken on CNBC Power Lunch 07/16/2009

They really didn't take him seriously at all...

unless ur getting the best product available u are paying about twice as much as anyone i know charges

people already do what u do with alcohol, supplying family and friends with their yield, but the market would be big enough that it wont really matter because there aren't enough people like u.

whats insane is going to jail for years at a time for smoking it.
i would love to pay a 50$ tax on it. just so i would not have to worry about going to jail for smoking it.
and i'm sure there is alot of other pple who feel the same way.
50 bucks is not alot of money if you add up the total amount of money one pays in legal fee's when you get busted for it

And soon the world will love you sweetleaf.

Black Sabbath kicks ass.

Yeah, just think, then they could be right there to stop any real crimes, huh? It would make this a better country.

What the hell does the rest of the world care about what I want to smoke? They don't care about me now! They never did. How much harm could it be? Wouldn't the harm already be present? It has been here for ever and it was legal before! Whereas every other drug is responsible for a large number of deaths here in America. Think of all the crime that wouldn't happen! Dumbfucks!

The whole point is that if we want it legal, we may very well NEED to convince everyone else that we'll make it worth their while.
Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of incentive for politicians to legalize cannabis. Especially considering the MASSIVE changes we'd see in police priorities, the prison industry, and arguably the pharmaceutical industry.

A lot of jobs would be created, but many would also be lost.

Q: Who wants to keep cannabis illegal?
A: Police Departments and Prisons.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you.
The price should be $10-25.

However, tax incentive makes the idea of legalization more palatable to prohibitionists.

The market will determine the true value of the product once the risk factor is taken out of the mix. The price will initially stay high and will go lower as more producers open up shop. Companies will compete, production will go up, demand will go down and steady back out again... just like any "new" product on the *legal* market.