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If you care about freedom, then California pot initiative matters the most
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:14 pm
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No disrespect to Colorado or Washington or Alaska, but California’s pot business would totally dwarf those already legal markets. Colorado, for instance, collected more than $135 million in pot-related revenues last year. California could collect up to $1 billion annually within a few years of legalization.
And if California votes to legalize, other states will follow. That will bring new pressure on the Drug Enforcement Agency to alter its preposterous classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, which means it has no known medical benefit and is considered as dangerous as heroin and LSD. (Twenty-five states, by the way, already have medical marijuana laws. Why the feds continue to resist re-scheduling, even as they loosen rules on growing pot for medical research, is just plain bizarre.)
LINK
All signs point to California legalizing, which is likely the tipping point which will contribute to all of our greater freedom.
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:15 pm to Big Scrub TX
This I am excited about. 
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:15 pm to Big Scrub TX
Hopefully it will draw all the lib hippies back to Cali...and Colorado can be red again.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:16 pm to Big Scrub TX
Too bad I no longer have the freedom to chose not to purchase health insurance from a private company but I guess the left isn't interested in that kind of freedom.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:17 pm to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:17 pm to Radiojones
That troll only cares about certain freedoms.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:17 pm to Radiojones
Both parties pick and choose how they like their freedom.
It's why I voted almost straight ticket libertarian
It's why I voted almost straight ticket libertarian
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:17 pm to Big Scrub TX
I prefer the black market ditch weed I get from the guy that cuts my lawn...
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:19 pm to Radiojones
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Too bad I no longer have the freedom to chose not to purchase health insurance from a private company
You don't? Link?
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:21 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Sure just pay the fine, how free it is.
You don't? Link?
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:26 pm to Big Scrub TX
I am watching Arkansas and Florida. Time for the south to enter this discussion
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:32 pm to Jbird
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Sure just pay the fine, how free it is.
Better than being jailed.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:34 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Soon to come, no insurance it will be slammer time.
Better than being jailed.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:39 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Big Scrub TX
I'm agreeing with a liberal idiot.
But yea, labeling weed as a Sch 1 narcotic is archaic and ignorant. I want to throw up when I hear all about how it'll lead to everyone driving while high and killing all of our kids. As if they won't still lock your arse up for that.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:40 pm to braindeadboxer
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I'm agreeing with a liberal idiot.
I'm not liberal. I'm just not a Jade-Helm-believing mouth breather.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:42 pm to Big Scrub TX
Good news. Absolutely no reason for marijuana to be illegal. It's beyond time to end the war on drugs.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:43 pm to Eli Goldfinger
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Hopefully it will draw all the lib hippies back to Cali...and Colorado can be red again.
This and I wish all the lib Yankees would leave Florida and move back to the Northeast.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:43 pm to Big Scrub TX
Big scrub, I'm all for pot related legislation, but isn't the revenue gained nullified by sales tax revenue lost Elsewhere. If you have 10 bucks in income and buy a unit of pot and pay the tax that goes with it, that means you have LESS money to spend on other goods, which means lost sales tax revenue
Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Big scrub, I'm all for pot related legislation, but isn't the revenue gained nullified by sales tax revenue lost Elsewhere. If you have 10 bucks in income and buy a unit of pot and pay the tax that goes with it, that means you have LESS money to spend on other goods, which means lost sales tax revenue
Possibly. Here's a very good read on a whole host of considerations in these legalizations. Re taxation, the author argues that the tax effect is too small to be one of the selling points.
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 2:55 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Big scrub, I'm all for pot related legislation, but isn't the revenue gained nullified by sales tax revenue lost Elsewhere. If you have 10 bucks in income and buy a unit of pot and pay the tax that goes with it, that means you have LESS money to spend on other goods, which means lost sales tax revenue
Not really. Most people that smoke, do it even though it's illegal. When it's not a black market item, the prices drop by at least half to two thirds. That means smokers have more money to spend, even after paying taxes.
There are some that would smoke if it weren't illegal, but that number is dwarfed by the current smokers. At least it has been in Colorado.
Only people who lose, are greedy frickers who profit off of the prison industrial complex.
I say we give prison guards security jobs at dispensaries. It's a win/win/win.
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