File Under: Of course! Raw Story. Excerpts:
Sir Richard Branson believes that the ideal way for Spain to get out of its current morass of national debt, savage austerity cuts, and social turmoil would be to legalize and tax marijuana.
The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group suggested at the opening of the world’s largest cannabis museum in Barcelona on Wednesday that this policy “would help get the country back on its feet.”
Branson is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a body “which includes five ex-presidents and Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and which concluded last year that the war on drugs had failed and called for experiments in decriminalisation.”
Other members of the commission include former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Buncha fuckin' neer-do-wells.. Wait; what?
Seriously, what's it going to take to have some rational policy regarding marijuana legalization and taxation on an international basis? Where are the other revenue streams that could turn the world's economies around? Legal or not, people will continue to use pot. Why not try a probationary legalization, complete with taxation and safety enforcement? Try, say, five years. If chaos rules the day(Which it won't..), re-criminalize it. If not, naysayers still don't have to smoke it, but the rest of the world reaps the benefits of a huge tax base increase, and the promise of some mighty fine days, full of totally legal fun! Win-win!
Sir Richard Branson believes that the ideal way for Spain to get out of its current morass of national debt, savage austerity cuts, and social turmoil would be to legalize and tax marijuana.
The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group suggested at the opening of the world’s largest cannabis museum in Barcelona on Wednesday that this policy “would help get the country back on its feet.”
Branson is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a body “which includes five ex-presidents and Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and which concluded last year that the war on drugs had failed and called for experiments in decriminalisation.”
Other members of the commission include former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Buncha fuckin' neer-do-wells.. Wait; what?
Seriously, what's it going to take to have some rational policy regarding marijuana legalization and taxation on an international basis? Where are the other revenue streams that could turn the world's economies around? Legal or not, people will continue to use pot. Why not try a probationary legalization, complete with taxation and safety enforcement? Try, say, five years. If chaos rules the day(Which it won't..), re-criminalize it. If not, naysayers still don't have to smoke it, but the rest of the world reaps the benefits of a huge tax base increase, and the promise of some mighty fine days, full of totally legal fun! Win-win!
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