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valkery
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Massachusetts has declared that the smell of marijuana is not enough to order people out of their cars. Specifically when the police pull you over for speeding or other driving infringements.


That is wrong. I think that denying the police a way to catch criminals is just plain wrong.

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Einfach
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taxing it would help turn the budgets solvent.

I thought you were the one who wanted to "help the poor" when really most of the people engaging in the "sins" that you'd tax are lower-middle class.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615935
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iMogwai
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As for video games, what is the justification? What is too keep a kid from simply playing the game outside on a handheld?


I think that he's saying that taxing everything people like just to earn money would be a real ******bagy (yes, that's an adjective now) thing to do.
Einfach
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As for taxing the internet, the result would be rather similar to prohibtion.

Yeah - you'd have these guys smuggling in the internet and they'd attack people who got involved when they shouldn't.
iMogwai
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No, I mean people would do what they always do, leech off unsecured wifi. Right now, I got three neighbors I can pirate a wifi signal from. Or backwire a phone to be a wifi station.


And I mean his comment was most likely a sarcastic response to your suggestion of legalizing and taxing a harmful drug.
iMogwai
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no more harmful then booze or smokes


True, but I think the only reason why they're still around is because they were legalized before we realized how dangerous they were, and people would be really pissed if they were banned now.

They did try to ban alcohol, but all it did was to shift control of the substance to other people.
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