My Thoughts on Tobacco and Pot Tax/Regulations
I do not smoke cigarettes or marijuana. I have family and friends that do partake and that is why I tend to take a reasonably libertarian attitude on these particular drugs. I appreciate the public health interest and I am not rejecting any regulations. Still, I believe that high taxes or too much regulation on these so-called "vices" will probably have unintentional consequences. I am a part of the Xennial Generation and in my younger days, smoking and drinking were certainly cool things to do. Being a nerd, I had neither the desire nor the potential to be cool. Yet, in high school, I read a book by the late Peter McWilliams titled Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, which made the libertarian case for the legalization of victimless or consensual crimes. I am not a member of the Libertarian Party, and I feel that the book sometimes oversimplifies public health interests, but the idea that the best way to handle vice is to criminalize it or tax it to the Stone