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It will thus reduce state expenditure on enforcing a widely violated law; remove marijuana growing and selling from the black market; enable any adult who wishes to use marijuana to do so; and introduce a tax on legal marijuana sales that will fill state coffers with revenue that formerly went to illegal growers (so long as there is no large-scale tax evasion).

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And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.

And that's 70 percent of the United States stock market, 70 percent of the operating system formerly known as your pension, your mortgage.

Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South jumped rope, too.

For me, it means helping others to raise the beams on their own formerly abandoned houses, or helping to educate those with privilege, now increasingly moving into cities, how we might come in and support rather than stress existing communities.

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