If you tax it much, there will still be a black market for it, with all the associated crime that brings. It already happens with cigarettes. http://www.npr.or

If you tax it much, there will still be a black market for it, with all the associated crime that brings. It already happens with cigarettes. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129934561 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1299345... And it's a lot harder to differentiate illegal goods from legal ones if the physical item could be either. I'm not saying whether we should or shouldn't legalize it, but I keep hearing people say "legalize it to remove the criminal element and tax the heck out of it." That doesn't necessarily end the associated crime issues.