Ammiano wants to legalize marijuana and tax it to increase state revenues. You know the last time that prohibition ended?? Well, it was at the end of the great depression, and at the time many heralded the benefits of taxing alcohol (as well as of course eliminating the associated crime). If there is any chance for legalization of marijuana it is now. If the legalization movement is silent now it is losing possibly the greatest oppurtunity that’s come there way in the last 80 years.

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