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Message: [QUOTE="Subob1, post: 2065798, member: 464"] Perhaps true but we tax alcohol, which is also in some peoples mind an inherently evil indulgence and with out a doubt it is coupled with extraordinary societal costs both personal and monetary, as does tobacco. Soon certain drugs will be no longer be generally illegal perhaps more because of the tax opportunity coupled with the reduction of law enforcement costs. Enforcing morality has never really worked; sex, alcohol, tobacco, drugs but, taxation does work to a degree. If it goes to public education maybe, but this is more likely in my opinion, just the rhetoric that helps pass the tax. But, taxation and regulation are far more effective than hard legal bans which have never worked. In my opinion all this has little to do with the actual financing of public education. [/QUOTE]