I agree that pot is a cash crop. I'm not sure what you are trying to say in that second sentence.

Don't kid yourself that legalizing pot will pay for any support for schools, police or roads. Has alcohol taxes paid for any of that? Alcohol is the most widely available drug and the most widely taxed. It hasn't paid for anything other than state general fund welfare programs. Neither will any of your prospective pot revenues pay for anything.

The money the states got from the tobacco lawsuits wasn't spent the way it was supposed to be spent. It went into the general coffers and was spent on entitlement programs. That basically means supporting the welfare state.

States entered the gambling business years ago via lotteries with the promise that revenues will pay for schools and many other things. None of that bullshit has happened. The states are raking in billions of dollars. Taxes have still gone up...up...up...up and up over the years. There has been no tax relief. There has been no property tax relief. Yet the states are still making billions off of gambling.

What the hell makes you think legalizing pot will save you a single penny in taxation? It will eventually wind up costing you so much more money because of expanded government drug treatment programs and the expansion of the welfare state.

Let's come back to reality. No taxpayer is going to see a single penny saved by making pot legal. It will wind up costing them dearly in the pocket.