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Yes, but only for medical use. | 12 | 5.97% | |
Yes, prohibition is silly. | 173 | 86.07% | |
No, it should remain illegal. | 9 | 4.48% | |
What? I was too high to watch the video, man. | 7 | 3.48% | |
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02-25-2010, 10:53 AM | #21 (permalink) | |
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I don't care if they make it legal or not, they are stupid if they don't, but that's beside the point. I'd still get it from independent sources, ie imported from Mexico. I'm not interested inpaying more taxes into a system too stupid to know how to handle money. Great idea: Let's take a system that knowingly is wasteful with taxes they collect and let's give them.... Wait for it.... Money!! |
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So it becomes legal to grow and sell. Its taxed heavily so the man gets his. Maybe it starts out as a small tax, sales, or something and they lie that they wont add anymore. Why would you buy it from a store? You can skip the tax and buy it from your nieghbor who grows it or just grow it yourself. Seems like its a silly recipe to legalize it and sustain a black market for it at the same time. Grow it, dry it, smoke it. Thats all you need to do. Its even easy to grow.
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Also, if pot is easy to grow, doesn't that take the demand out of the market? If anyone can have it as easily as it seems, would anyone really make a profit from having a pot business? Probably not - why would I buy from a distributor if I have it growing next to my basil in my garden? |
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You want the government to legalize somthing and expect them not to make money on it? Do you live on this planet? Frankly, even if it was taxed an insane ammount, it would probably cost about what it does on the street now anyway. I'm cool with it being taxed, it's a win win.
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02-25-2010, 06:23 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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The usual argument for taxing something like alcohol or tobacco directly is that the funds are used for regulating the industry. Other taxes, like sales taxes, get applied as well.
This logic is one of the reasons homebrewing for personal use doesn't get taxed. If it's for personal use, it doesn't need to be regulated and it doesn't ever enter into the commerce stream on any real scale. You can grow and smoke your own tobacco, too. Home gardens aren't messed with by the FDA under the same theory. Now, we could argue all day ... and maybe we will .... about whether taxing these things at all makes any sense. Presumably, however, the same sort of system would get applied to legalized sensi. Homegrown for personal consumption would be one thing, retail sales would probably be another matter entirely. Personally, I think that if you believe pot (or alcohol or tobacco) should be legal then it's worth asking why in the world the government should have anything to do with them at all. |
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You could say that about most things that get taxed, but it's how we do business and talking about changing that is way bigger than a conversation about weed. |
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02-25-2010, 06:53 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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At least here in California it should absolutely be legalized and taxed. It would decrease the drug smuggling, maybe make a few drug dealers get jobs (hey, they could work on the weed farms!), and it would certainly go a long way to help lift this state out of it's defecit. Not on it's own, but it would help. Plus, you know the governator wants to smoke again.
I know that medical marijuana from the shops is being sold at street prices currently. I wonder how that would change? Last edited by as1eeponatrain; 02-25-2010 at 06:55 PM. Reason: to ponder a ? |
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