There is a path to solvency for this government, for this nation, and for us all, and we are not even looking at it.
Big Tobacco could easily move this path forward, and do so quickly, it is a simple movement of the supply chain from one commodity to another.
the rest of the manufacturing plants and processes are in place, in fact they could rehire anyone laid off, and reopen closed factories to meet the need,
What am I talking about? Pot, Weed, Marijuana, Ganja, what ever you want to call it. Let Big Tobacco take on the manufacturing, and eliminate the illegal status, and we would go form cutting budgets to surplus budgets,
I know i KNOW, Deaths, Cartels, corruption, NOT easily solved,
BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT
Why Bullshit? When we repealed prohibition, the entire under world of booze pandering went away quietly, why? The liquor companies had more money and more friends than the thugs.
think about it, the tobacco companies would swing into a full business model.
Develop and contract with suppliers, (cartels don't do contracts well) develop the supply chain for grade, and quality purposes. So REAL companies would have to develop out of the Hodgepodge of growers so standardization could be achieved.
I would wager with anyone that if we turned the legalized marijuana trade over toe Big Tobacco within one year 70 80% of the "War on Drug" issues would simply disappear.
Don't know if anyone from the tobacco industry reads KOS, but you have all the process, procedures and equipment in place, why not fight on the side of legalization? New revenue...............