re: Colorado's marijuana year-over-year tax income doubles in March

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frick no. Proponents of smoking bans are commies.

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So are stoners.

[img]And I bet there is zero quantifiable crime increase over the same time period. [/img]

Exactly.

I don't see how a State can turn their head to all that Tax Revenue.Schools,Roads,etc....

Damn,Alabama,Mississippi,Louisiana.Start taxing some Marijuana.

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So let me get this right

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You got it wrong.

I thought it was a pretty easy statement to understand. The type of person who would show up high or drunk at work isn't doing so because it's legal or not. They are likely just irresponsible people or are taking the calculated risk that nothing will happen or won't get caught by their employer.

Changing marijuana laws will not magically create people who are this irresponsible who would show up to work in that condition. Even in my heavy drinking younger days I never showed up to work drunk. And I wouldn't suddenly start showing up high either if it were legal.

There's absolutely no reason why alcohol is legal and pot isn't. Alcohol is far more dangerous and kills more people. The only people that benefit from MJ prohibition are the police that seize assets and prisons the house them.

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You should get out of the country more. You know, the one with a quarter of the worlds prison population and 5% of its total population. The same you you think is freer than any other.

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There's more to that number than our draconian drug laws. As in, you can murder 300 people in Nigeria before getting caught. I've been around some parts of the world including the often praised Europe and I'll take here over those places all day every day. We just have nicer shite in general. Watching house hunters I'd go crazy in a Euro kitchen

Not that I don't enjoy visiting though. Always a good time to get out and about.

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Well, one did. LINK

This seems like the place that would promote marijuana use.

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If your job is making monsters and creepy objects and sculpting, I think smoking would help.

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i heard the tax increase was no where near what they hoped for.

the govt stuff is expensive and people are still using their dealers.

I know in Illinois, they are going to have their shite at market cost, what the market asks for it. Which could hurt dealers. Where as Colorado made their prices, with out trying to keep it around market.



truth? propaganda?

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Thanks to Colorado's new pot tax and a quirky state law, residents may get a special one-time tax refund next year.
The total could be about $59 million. That's how much the state expects to collect from taxes on the sale of recreational marijuana, which Colorado legalized last year. Some of that money was slated for schools, but it may go back into taxpayers' pockets instead.
The reason for the refund: Colorado is expected to collect more in total tax revenue than it thought it would this year. That's not permitted in a year the state rolls out a new tax, which this time was the 28% pot tax.

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CNN link

And the actual numbers per the OP were even higher.

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So far in fiscal 2014-2015, the state has received $68 million in sales-tax receipts from marijuana, up from $16 million in the first fiscal year recreational marijuana was legal. The state's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30, meaning that the year-to-date figures include sales-tax receipts from the second half of 2014 as well as the first three months of 2015.

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So let me get this right, you are saying that just as many people drink at work as those who get high at work? If so, you sir are so pro-marijuana that you cannot be objective. Seriously, I know/knew many people who drink alcohol and smoke weed and I can tell you most of them never went to work drunk, but half of them would go to work high.

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Yeah, the dude at Burger King serving you fries is much, much more likely to have just smoked a joint out back than having pounded a few Buds before coming into work.

But at the same time, I work for a Fortune 500 company, which drug tested me for marijuana use as a condition for employment, and our corporate office rules actually has a section about how much alcohol we can drink on the clock.

Friend of mine works in a datacenter in the D.C. metro area and his employer keeps a fridge stocked with beer in the break room. Yet he has to undergo regular drug tests and failing one means losing his security clearance and his job.

Both companies are names that any average American would recognize and aren't weird new tech startup types, they're companies that have existed for decades.

It isn't uncommon at all. If you think people in business don't drink at work, you're just incredibly naïve.

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I wonder how their business tax base fared as opposed to last year? I read an article or seen a documentary on TV that was saying some businesses are moving away from Colorado, because all their employees were high and it was affecting their bottom line.

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So you can't remember if you read it or watched a documentary about it? I'm calling bullshite.