[Boli]

Just make it legal to smoke it in your own home... though illegal to grow it yourself.

Then the government introduces packets of leaf an puts tax on them.... but since they are mass producing it they can tax it up the level of most dealers.... plus people can be sure they are getting the right stuff -- guarantied so people WOULD invariably buy it.

Of course they would still have an underground black market there is no way to stop that b/c it is too easy to grow yourself and since the price varies so much; but people tend to go where it is most convenient not where it's cheapest most of the time.

As for medicinal purposes threat comes in easily. Controlled farming/cultivation of the drug lends it hand in hand to research and prescriptions.

It has been thought through before but there are still hard liners who perceive the drug to be the root of all evil b/c it affects your concentration and inhibitions and will INVARIABLY lead on to harder drugs. And no government will support such an enterprise knowing they will alienate approximately 30% of the electorate.


~ Boli