Prohibition doesn’t work; in fact, it has cost more than it was worth.
In the last 40 years, we’ve spent significant amounts of money to control the growing and sale of marijuana. It costs a lot to arrest, prosecute, and send them to prison.
We need to simply legalize the drug, regulate it and tax it.
Such a move would reduce the number of police officers assigned for enforcement, eliminate a huge number of prison beds allocated for drug offenders and add dollars to the public coffers.
Legalizing marijuana would be one way to pay off the $2.2-billion shortfall caused by scrapping the Harmonized Sales Tax.
William Perry
Victoria
