02-21-2004, 10:45 PM
Yes Urban, you have seen the results first hand...
Besides legalising pot is a bundle of problems in and of itself, money would have to spent regulating, controlling growth, and busting illegal sales... Organizations like the ATF and TABC (or whatever your state alocohol and tobacco commision is called) would have an increased workload. So more agents, not to mention the money spent initializing farms for it. So basically even here in America, business would boom for a year at the most... then go bust again...
Read up on economic theories; If the economy Surges up, it will eventually have to surge back down to compensate. Boom & Bust is they way of the past. We now try to make the uptrends and downtrends curve slowly over a year or more. The Economy like most other things has no 'Quick Fix', it takes time.
This reminds me of the way people view the presidential candidates in office... 'Oh Our Economy is in a downtrend: It's ALL BUSHES FAULT'. The truth of the matter? It takes about 4-6 years for new laws to fully impact the economy in most cases. I won't say Bush isn't screwing up our economy, because there really is evidence Both ways...
A lot of the things that Clinton did in Office have some nasty consequences and the slump in the economy is the side-effect of one of his screw ups.
Just my 2 pence.
Besides legalising pot is a bundle of problems in and of itself, money would have to spent regulating, controlling growth, and busting illegal sales... Organizations like the ATF and TABC (or whatever your state alocohol and tobacco commision is called) would have an increased workload. So more agents, not to mention the money spent initializing farms for it. So basically even here in America, business would boom for a year at the most... then go bust again...
Read up on economic theories; If the economy Surges up, it will eventually have to surge back down to compensate. Boom & Bust is they way of the past. We now try to make the uptrends and downtrends curve slowly over a year or more. The Economy like most other things has no 'Quick Fix', it takes time.
This reminds me of the way people view the presidential candidates in office... 'Oh Our Economy is in a downtrend: It's ALL BUSHES FAULT'. The truth of the matter? It takes about 4-6 years for new laws to fully impact the economy in most cases. I won't say Bush isn't screwing up our economy, because there really is evidence Both ways...
A lot of the things that Clinton did in Office have some nasty consequences and the slump in the economy is the side-effect of one of his screw ups.
Just my 2 pence.