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Letter: Regulate pot like tobacco Godfrey Tudor-Matthews Times-Standard Friday 11 Jul 2008 To say that the drug market is profitable is to state the obvious. However, the beneficiaries are not only those responsible for drug production and its subsequent marketing. The taxpayer subsidizes the state and federal government law enforcement agencies with enormous sums of money to thwart the efforts of those involved in the production and distribution of illicit plants, or the importation of the chemicals that constitute the drug industry's raw materials, and to seek to confiscate or destroy them. Tell a child it cannot have something and it'll want it the more. Some adults are little or no different. I would suggest the quickest way to deal with the rampant use of pot is to legalize it. Lift the ban on growing cannabis; put it on the open market and trade it on the Commodities Exchange in Chicago or the Oklahoma Tobacco Exchange. I suggest the price will drop like a rock along with the incentive for Mexican or any other drug cartel to get in the act. The government can then tax and regulate the purchase of cannabis as it does tobacco, and generate substantial revenue rather than paying multiplied millions of dollars in an effort to stifle its use. Will there be objections to this proposal? Certainly; but a careful consideration of the way the situation is presently being handled might show the proposition to have merit. Godfrey Tudor-Matthews Eureka
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