I think it should be legalised and have an age restriction like alcohol and tobacco. Its the only way it will ever happen. As for taxation, yeah thats inevitable but perhaps some of the tax revenues could be used to assist people who are addicted to hard drugs. At the moment we all pay a premium to buy weed due to the "risk" involved do you really think it costs anywhere near what you pay to actually produce it? Also if it were legalised teenagers wouldn't have to go to drug dealers to buy it, thus negating the "gateway drug" theory. In addition you wouldn't have the droughts that seem to keep happening in the UK with monotonous regularity, so you could just buy it when you wanted it/needed it. I don't know about in USA but in the UK people brew their own beer and make their own wine and you can buy kits from high street chemists so you can make your own spirits thus dodging the gvernment leived taxes, I'd imagine if weed were legalised it would be a similar situation.

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