Pubdate: Thu, 01 Sep 2005
Source: High Point Enterprise (NC)
Copyright: 2005 High Point Enterprise
Contact:  http://www.hpe.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/576
Author: Kirk Muse

N.C. COULD GET TAX MONEY BY LEGALIZING MARIJUANA

Regarding William Harris' letter: "North Carolina gets lots of tax money
from smokers" (Aug. 24). Perhaps, but you get no tax money from marijuana
smokers.

It seems to me that non-marijuana users would be very much in favor of
taxing a product that they don't use. Around here, taxing other people's
vices is very popular.

If marijuana were regulated, taxed and sold in licensed business
establishments like tobacco products, countless millions, if not billions,
of dollars would flow into our nation's tax coffers.

Then marijuana would no longer be sold by criminals, criminals who often
offer free samples of other, much more dangerous drugs, like meth and
cocaine to their marijuana customers.

KIRK MUSE

Mesa, Ariz.
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