Re: Revenue?
Of course it would be better for marijuana to be legally available and taxed than it would be for marijuana to remain criminalized. The question is what the reasons to be given for opposing marijuana prohibition are.
Trading off increased theft from peaceful marijuana users may be reasonable as a ransom for keeping them from being locked in cages for years. But it seems pretty dodgy to talk up the increased loot from the ransom as if it were a positive reason to endorse ending prohibition, doesn’t it? Why not stick to the aspects of ending prohibition (like reducing government spending, and, more importantly, not assaulting innocent people and robbing them of years of their life) that are genuine benefits, rather than those that are not?
Anticopyright.