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Legalize pot to pay down debt?

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    Untapped source of state revenue?

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Yeah getting a high -- the mile high state legally voters in Colorado and Washington deciding to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana and John -- -- High time we legalize and tax pot in the US helped bring down our debt in the US and that's a flip side John go ahead.

Of course we should legalize we don't want the incompetence in government telling us what's safe and what's not safe what we do their private lives.

And there is the revenue impacted obviously lead to higher revenues for states and the federal government my only problem there is we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem.

And it scares me to hand them more money all right Steve is this a good or bad ideas legalization of pot.

But a bad idea -- slippery slope countries that -- try to find -- people quickly go into other drugs and from governments to -- those kind of substance or raise money that's moral corruption of the highest order says something about the age we live and Rick got -- good or bad.

I wanted to make sure I got to writes I pulled -- I don't -- and Chong records I started back.

I've got the word of course it should be legal it should have been legalized along time ago we can use the money the state level it's all did our Mike does anybody -- if you want to legalize it that's finally me but it's folly to think it's gonna lower the deficit.

Raising taxes on cigarettes hasn't done that raising taxes from gambling hasn't done that -- that hurt it's a spending problem it's just gonna give the government more money to spend an hour.

-- bill ball and at best Colorado says is going to bring in twenty million bucks before we legalize dangerous drugs let's legalize and other things let's -- big cars that taxing gasoline and let's legalize.

-- -- honestly let's legalize it already got our head light -- that work -- even hopeful that at some point in New York City it becomes the decriminalize to possess large -- that's gotta -- sorry we've run out of time coming up no more.

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