Fligger wrote...
As if...
When there is recession there is depression and where there is depression there are disorders, sometimes deaths, most of time some cost for society.
Not sure taxes would solve anything, since it has never prevent people to begin to smoke tobacco nor to drink alcohol. Not even to buy by import.
You wouldn't gain more money, just the same but from fewer people, or people would turn toward illegal providers with no taxes.
True, but what if, rather than tax it, the government were take total control over it's production? As in, it would illegal for anyone else to make it.
If the government price it reasonably, then illegal dealers won't be able to get many buyers if they price it too high, and won't get much profit if they price it too low.
That way, all profits from its sale go to the government, without extortionate tax rates.