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Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:37 pm to Bison
Hell yes I would.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:39 pm to Bison
It’s completely stupid that we have such puritanical laws on a plant.
If people want to smoke and chill, let them smoke and chill.
If people want to smoke and chill, let them smoke and chill.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:48 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:"I'm not only and investor, I'm a loyal customer"
i'd "invest" in one of these.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:52 pm to Bison
Louisiana, with its specific flavor of tourism offerings, should be the first state in the south to go for this. It will have been a HUGE miss if yall arent the ones to pull the trigger first and reap a few years of exclusivity.
ETA: I think its gonna go Florida, GA/NC then LA when the dominos start falling. But it should be LA.... everyone else.
ETA: I think its gonna go Florida, GA/NC then LA when the dominos start falling. But it should be LA.... everyone else.
This post was edited on 3/28/18 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:54 pm to Bison
Casinos were supposed to give a nice chunk towards education. How has that worked out? I support legalization either way. But to think for one second that the state would do the right thing with tax revenue from weed, is laughable.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 1:58 pm to Bison
I would support it even if they piled up all the money and lit it on fire.
This post was edited on 3/28/18 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 3/28/18 at 2:04 pm to NYNolaguy1
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That money is currently being devoted to criminal justice partners (LEO, prisons, judges, lawyers, etc) in the form of salaries, asset forfeiture, fines, etc.
I don’t know if I fully follow what you are saying.
How can money that doesn’t exist be devoted to criminal justice partners?
The sale on pot is illegal, therefore the state receives no money from its sale.
If you are implying that the criminal justice partners will lose out on the money they receive from arrests and cases involving weed then you are correct. However, the amount of revenue that will be gained by the taxation of legal weed sales will be greater than the revenue that they will lose from these cases.
As long as the revenues from weed taxation aren’t promised to the school system or some other singular cause, then the state will be able to increase the budget for the criminal justice partners.
In that scenario, the criminal justice partners will have close to the same amount of money and will be free to pursue crimes that are way more detrimental to society.
Right?
If there are flaws in my line of thought, I am more than interested in hearing them. I think it’s an interesting study of the economics regarding a previously banned market.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 4:20 pm to public_enemy
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I'm good with any of education
Nope.
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coastal restoration
Yes.
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roadwork
YES!
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healthcare
no.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 4:25 pm to Bison
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Say the state made 300 million a year in taxes from marijuana. ( like Colorado, it goes to their schools I think).
What about if the revenue went to road infrastructure? Bridges, potholes , the loop, etc.
If this state made 300 million in taxes from recreational marijuana, 250 million would line the pockets of corrupt politicians and their families and friends and the other 50 million would go towards whatever the money is dedicated to.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 4:32 pm to Bison
I support legalized MJ because of freedom.
Tax revenue is just the most likely method to get that done.
Tax revenue is just the most likely method to get that done.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 4:33 pm to LNCHBOX
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I'd support it even if it didn't.
This.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 7:37 pm to Bison
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coastal restoration
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What about if the revenue went to road infrastructure? Bridges, potholes , the loop, etc
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Or higher education? More degree offerings at LSU, better professors
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money which goes to pot dealers would be circulated back into the state spending budget.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa dude slow your roll. Compared to CO, we're centuries behind where we want to be at with making money and distributing it fairly. Only one issue at a time because we can't micromanage all these problem we have concerning funds (New bridges, potholes everywhere, education, taxes, welfare, etc.)
We can't just dump 100 percent of the funds made from Cannabis hastily. We need to prioritize what's important first and the front-runner to all of this would be education. With education comes innovation and innovation would be far less cheaper to put funds into than some other project to hastily waste money into.
Legalizing weed might help with Law Enforcement as well. Giving minor-offenders with possession of Cannabis a chance to not go to prison where all of our tax money is being wasted. I don't want weed to go the route of privatizing as it will be corrupted and mishandled immaturely.
Furthermore, I think the coastal restoration projects would benefit from the taxation and legalization of weed, along with the recycling to Christmas trees for the coasts.
I have so many ideas for when/if LA decides to legalize it. But too short of computer spce to list the reasons and rewards. Good luck guys and vote for it to be legalized when the issue shows up
Posted on 3/28/18 at 7:38 pm to Bison
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potholes
ISWYDT
Posted on 3/28/18 at 10:01 pm to TheHarahanian
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I've seen this played out with gambling and education.
No thanks, and that has nothing to do with not wanting weed legalized. I just don't like being lied to.
imagine how bad off we would be without the gambling money...
Posted on 3/28/18 at 10:09 pm to Bison
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Or higher education? More degree offerings at LSU, better professors
Higher education?
frick that! How about we start with the primary schools first and then work our way up....meanwhile closing half of the universities before we start sinking money there.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 10:13 pm to Bison
Our politicians will lie to us and the money will never go to things that it should like:
Coastal restoration
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech University
University of Louisiana - Lafayette
It will be squandered away in political wheeling and dealing. Lesson learned from the casinos.
Coastal restoration
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech University
University of Louisiana - Lafayette
It will be squandered away in political wheeling and dealing. Lesson learned from the casinos.
Posted on 3/28/18 at 10:25 pm to Bison
Education, roads, coastal restoration
Posted on 3/29/18 at 3:39 am to Bison
No amount of money given to LSU will ever trickle down to improved classroom education. That's not a part of the business model of the academic industry.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 5:07 am to TigerBuddha
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have so many ideas for when/if LA decides to legalize it. But too short of computer spce to list the reasons and rewards. Good luck guys and vote for it to be legalized when the issue shows up
It doesn’t matter how many “great ideas” you have. The money will never be spent as intended. You could give a trillion dollars to this state and in two years the governor or leg. Would be telling us we don’t have any money and how broke we are.
And we probably would be. Because the politicians in this state will take whatever they get and piss it away on pet projects or programs that enrich them or their cronies.
The fact that you have so many great ideas just proves to me that there are that many ways for the politicians to steal and misspend those tax dollars. Nothing is going to work till we change the way things are done here.
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