Could we balance the budget by taxing and selling pot? Free college! Better healthcare! They said that about gambling, right. But wait a minute. At what cost? Isn't there a downside to drugs, including pot? If not, why has it been illegal all these years?

Crime is down, way down. Why would anybody want to mess with that? Or is getting high that important to us?

Wow, this is tough stuff isn't it? You can't compare it to tobacco or booze since both are horrible and we wouldn't want to make a decision based on past bad decisions. But are the downsides to pot manageable enough to allow us to consider it for adults only and tax it heavily? What do you think?

Could we balance the budget by taxing and selling pot? Free college! Better healthcare! They said that about gambling, right. But wait a minute. At what cost? Isn't there a downside to drugs, including pot? If not, why has it been illegal all these years?

Crime is down, way down. Why would anybody want to mess with that? Or is getting high that important to us?

Wow, this is tough stuff isn't it? You can't compare it to tobacco or booze since both are horrible and we wouldn't want to make a decision based on past bad decisions. But are the downsides to pot manageable enough to allow us to consider it for adults only and tax it heavily? What do you think?