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re: What is the argument for weed being illegal at this point?
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:08 pm to northshorebamaman
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:08 pm to northshorebamaman
People either forget or choose to ignore the support President Trump had from Republicans on his prison reform. They didn’t outright say they were decriminalizing weed, but the wording was obvious that part of the plan was to greatly reduce arrests related to marijuana.
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Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:08 pm to northshorebamaman
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Shows you how powerful some of the interests are on the anti side.
The anti side is the pharmaceutical companies. The one that turns doctors into drug dealers because they get a cut for prescribing drugs. Legal weed woukd cut into their bottom line so they can't have that.
But the cat's out of the bag now with so many states legalizing it on the state level. Just legalize it federally and be done with it and stop spending so many resources preventing it.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:08 pm to WaterLink
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could use the increase in tax revenue
frick that bullshite. standard sales tax should suffice
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:09 pm to Cracker
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If you want weed legal prepare to pay 50% more than you pay now dummy
Lol I would pay 100% more just for the convenience of being able to go to a dispensary and pick out whatever I wanted.
Edibles, all kinds of strains, all types of THC products, and the joy of not having to go to some bum’s apartment to pick it up.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:10 pm to sand mountainDvalues
quote:Weed is way cheaper here now that it's legal.
Lol I would pay 100% more just for the convenience of being able to go to a dispensary and pick out whatever I wanted.
This post was edited on 6/6/20 at 9:11 pm
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:12 pm to northshorebamaman
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Weed is way cheaper here now that it's legal.
I have yet to travel to a dispensary but I was under the assumption that it was cheaper as well.
Point stands I would still pay more for the convenience of it being legal
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:12 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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Don’t be surprised if it’s republicans running on a platform to decriminalize weed in 2024.
GOP should’ve been on this platform. It’s freedom. But as usual the GOP can’t get on board with something so common sense.
I know some special interest groups want to keep it illegal but I’m not sure if I know any individual who still thinks it should be illegal.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:12 pm to upgrayedd
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frick that bullshite. standard sales tax should suffice
....do you understand a product of great demand is currently going into the pockets of black market dealers and it could be very easily something that could be going to new legitimate businesses that would be created? New jobs and new tax revenue, seems like economic growth to me.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:12 pm to upgrayedd
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frick that bullshite. standard sales tax should suffice
Ha, you think weed is going to escape the "sin tax"? They are going to get every dime they can out of that shite.
This post was edited on 6/6/20 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:14 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:In his defense he said it should suffice. Not that it will.
Ha, you think weed is going to escape the "sin tax"? They are going to get every dime they can out of that shite.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:14 pm to WaterLink
This is the 3rd time this has been posted this week.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:15 pm to WaterLink
The current sales tax would suffice. Why would you be in favor of additional taxation? Seems like a good way to keep the black market, as you said, alive and well.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:15 pm to WaterLink
Got some and some edibles
Think I may hit them tonight.
Think I may hit them tonight.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:16 pm to northshorebamaman
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Ha, you think weed is going to escape the "sin tax"? They are going to get every dime they can out of that shite.
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In his defense he said it should suffice. Not that it will.
True. I didn't catch that.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:16 pm to northshorebamaman
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Weed is way cheaper here now that it's legal.
Yeah I dont understand this argument at all. Even the states where it is still illegal the black market prices went down a lot once Colorado and Washington legalized it.
And for the folks who says it's a "gateway drug" well the only reason it was ever a gateway drug was because you'd go to buy some weed and the shady dude you were buying from had some other shite he was trying to sell. At a dispensary it's just weed products, you go there to buy weed and all they have is weed and all you walk out with is weed.
There is literally no good argument other than "it's always been illegal so it should still be so"
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:18 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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The current sales tax would suffice. Why would you be in favor of additional taxation? Seems like a good way to keep the black market, as you said, alive and well
When did I ever say anything contrary to this?
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:18 pm to WaterLink
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....do you understand a product of great demand is currently going into the pockets of black market dealers and it could be very easily something that could be going to new legitimate businesses that would be created? New jobs and new tax revenue, seems like economic growth to me.
economic growth is not based on tax revenue generation
I think you missed my point
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:18 pm to WaterLink
It’s 100% a “gateway drug.”
Just not for everyone and shouldn’t be used as an argument against legalization.
Just not for everyone and shouldn’t be used as an argument against legalization.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:19 pm to northshorebamaman
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Great Weed is way cheaper here now that it's legal.
People in louisiana are paying $20+ a gram in some areas for what we consider mids.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 9:19 pm to WaterLink
Louisiana needs a complete overhaul of our prison system. We incarcerate an embarrassingly high percentage of our population.
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