[TheRealThing]

Legalize it, regulate it, tax it, and let the citizens decide if they want to smoke it. That's the funny thing, if someone else smokes, that doesn't mean you(being general) have to. Just one more thing that people try to regulate, to be able to tell them what they can or cannot do in private.

You must have been proud of this post. You might live to see it legalized, who knows. And if that happens I'm sure we'll tax it. BTW that reminds me of the argument the casino/gambling lottery advocates have made with regard to legalizing that vice as well. The promise was that taxes from lottery sales would totally fund the shortfall of Kentucky's public school systems. As with the argument to legalize pot smoking, it all turned out to be a lot of 'smoke'. But, to get to your second point, the "regulate it" idea, which I find absurdly optimistic. How can we reasonably expect to regulate it after it is legal, if we can't begin to regulate it now while it is illegal?