Inadvertent price supports are what you get when a commodity is made or grown scarce. Pot growers for years could count on the DEA or other federal or local agents to make pot scarce enough to constitute an informal net of price supports. Will pot growers now need secure systems around their devalued fields? Will they continue to booby trap their crop? Why would they? The romance, the lure of the latterday outlawry will be gone. Pot farmers will pay taxes like everybody else, show up at civic meetings and lead boy scout troops. Presumably the music and tattoos will linger to the last until some grandbaby asks about a particular scar or tattoo, or the older teen-agers forget the songs. Gramps, why did they call them the Dooby Brothers. Look Grandpa, doesn't he have the same tattoo you have? What leaf is that, anyway?
That is when the last of the drug growers will finally be gone, perhaps to become the subject of a historic novel. I suppose you could say it was colorful.And it was profitable. And it required very little capital. And it kept vice officers gainfully employed.
What other vices, major or minor, shall we choose next to outlaw?If we choose that, it will create a considerable chunk of economy, one we can tax with a clear conscience.
That is when the last of the drug growers will finally be gone, perhaps to become the subject of a historic novel. I suppose you could say it was colorful.And it was profitable. And it required very little capital. And it kept vice officers gainfully employed.
What other vices, major or minor, shall we choose next to outlaw?If we choose that, it will create a considerable chunk of economy, one we can tax with a clear conscience.
