...institutions without explicit attachments to this tax and that tax.
And let me be clear: I support taxes. They are the price one pays for living in a civilized society, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it.
Dissent: Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, (1927)
I also believe that efforts to diminish the use of all psychoactive drugs - I include cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana here - should be publicly funded and if income taxes are used for this purpose, I have no objection.
Identifying pot revenues as a school funding source explicitly is a very, very, very, very bad idea; it sends an awful message.
Most of the stoners I personally knew when I was young were poor performers academically.
My sons, both of whom are high honors students thus far, also knew a fair number of modern stoners in high school. They're going nowhere.
I am aware that there are a few exceptions to this rule. But my experience suggests that pot is bad for one's brain. I can't think of a single stoner I personally knew who was a high achiever. The opposite is true. Even those with the best potential were wasted, literally and figuratively.
Have a nice weekend.
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