Legalize pot and 'tax it to the max': Mayor Campbell

[sNyx]

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article....icleID=1336265

Legalize pot and 'tax it to the max': Mayor Campbell

VANCOUVER (CBC) - Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell says the proposed federal legislation to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana doesn't go far enough.
The mayor says he wants to see the outright legalization of pot.

"I think we should legalize it, we should tax it to the max and take all the money that we get from it and put it straight into health care."

"That way you don't have to worry about grow ops," he says. If you want to grow yourself a little bit of marijuana, you grow it. Who really cares, quite frankly?"

As for large-scale pot producers, Campbell – a former RCMP drug officer who now chairs the city's police board – says the new law achieves nothing.

He says big-time growers will continue to risk arrest despite tougher penalties written into the new legislation.

"As long as you have that huge profit for, let's say face it, not all that much risk, it's just going to continue on," says the mayor.

He also says the new legislation won't do much to improve community safety, because it doesn't address the issues of grow op violence and gang drug wars.

[Bengal-Bangle]

damn straight, >>>>> health care!

[Senior]

Also it would create legit jobs for people.

[cinist]

p0t is illegal?

[sNyx]

Originally posted by cinist83:
p0t is illegal?

walking down 12th street it is ;)
the alleys may say otherwise..

[cinist]

^
you mean wheeling down 12th street? lol

[sNyx]

Originally posted by cinist83:
you mean wheeling down 12th street? lol

if you must

[cinist]

aww i'm sorry myles , just tryin to find humour in an unfortunate situation

[Goat]

'tax it to the max' - 0o someones givin me money? i'm SO down with that.
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alright, nuff jokin around...no fuckin way in goat hell will one fuckin penny of motherfuckin bud money will i contribute towards this fucktard excuse for a government. fuckin politiians.

*end goat rant

[Niko]

If only there was a small chance that ANY of that tax money would actually go to anything more than padding budgets for business lunches, I might be down with that.

[tested]

why would anyone buy pot from the government when you could just grow it, what would the point being in taxing it, unless its just a bunch of lazy people buying it, cause i know ID be growing it if i could legally.
i only have like 20 plants growing right now
i want more though, but its to sketchy