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Legal Cannabis is Literally Transforming Cities — Funding Roads, Schools, Charities and More
The Free Thought Project ^ | May 29, 2016 | Justin Gardner

Posted on 05/29/2016 1:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: dainbramaged

shit is natural too....we don’t eat it...maybe you do....


81 posted on 05/29/2016 9:03:22 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Ken H

Enjoy your dope!


82 posted on 05/29/2016 9:09:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970
Enjoy your dope!

I have. It's been enjoyable chatting with you!

83 posted on 05/29/2016 9:18:15 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: cherry

GFY


84 posted on 05/29/2016 9:19:58 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Ken H

I rest my case!

;^)


85 posted on 05/29/2016 9:20:48 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or not.

I think they're lying again.

86 posted on 05/29/2016 9:37:52 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Vermont Lt
" They will be crying to increase the tax in two or three years."

That's exactly what will happen. But unlike tobacco or alcohol, marijuana can be easily grown at home and that's exactly what people will do. The tax revenue will plunge.

The state will not have the option of making the tax as onerous as they have done with cigarettes.
87 posted on 05/29/2016 9:50:45 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: cherry

+1


88 posted on 05/29/2016 10:05:28 PM PDT by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
From your link =>

The study showed that the number of drivers testing positive for marijuana increased 100 percent from 2007 to 2012, with marijuana-related fatalities doubling from 37 to 78. Traffic fatalities total around 500 a year in the state.

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2007 => Fatal crashes 508; Deaths 554; Deaths/100K pop 11.4

2012 => Fatal crashes 433; Deaths 472; Deaths/100K pop 9.1

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http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview/2007

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview/2012

89 posted on 05/29/2016 10:16:28 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

Is that the “hair test” that determines if you’ve used cannabis in the past few months, or blood tests that showed it was used immediately previous to an accident?

100% increase of people having an accident who ate a Big Mac in the last month only testifies to the popularity of Big Macs. 100% rise in accidents while people are eating Big Macs, demonstrates causality.


90 posted on 05/29/2016 11:05:53 PM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: taildragger

“......what will they do when it bites them in the arse with addiction issues get out of control...”

Tax the working citizen for a disaster that they created.


91 posted on 05/30/2016 12:28:11 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: GenXteacher

Agreed.


92 posted on 05/30/2016 2:57:16 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Better to be right and alone than mired in a multitude of evil. And it makes a good litmus test as to the sort of people one consorts with.


93 posted on 05/30/2016 5:13:22 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GraceG

“Now I will never touch the stuff, but if some fool wants to ruin their life with it, I am fine with it, just don’t tax me to clean up their wrecked lives.”

There’s the rub.... I tend to agree with your statement, but what is the measure of their decision impacting (taxing) others. In the article I didn’t notice any of the windfall being set aside for treatment programs.


94 posted on 05/30/2016 6:29:38 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: txhurl

“I know, I’m the one in line behind them all just trying to buy gas and a slurpee.”

Maddening, isn’t it? I quit going to those stations where the line to pay for fuel is filled with people checking their lottery numbers and trying to decide which sparkly gambling papers to buy next.


95 posted on 05/30/2016 6:44:13 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: KamperKen

“.....marijuana can be easily grown at home and that’s exactly what people will do.”

THAT is exactly correct! Right now, while it’s being ‘legalized’ and regulated, there is an increase in tax revenue. Once people realize how easy it is to grow in their backyard or in a pot on a windowsill, what motivation will there be to go out and buy it? Sure, some people will, but most likely the majority will just grow their own. At that point what will the government do? Tax people’s personal crop? I doubt people will agree to allow ‘pot taxation and revenue agents’ into their home on a mass scale. So the end result will most likely be a small revenue stream but more stoners since it’s now legal. That’s exactly what Soros and the One World Government people want: a pacified work force that just goes along with the wonderful New World Order.


96 posted on 05/30/2016 7:03:17 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Think how much they would make by making meth legal!


97 posted on 05/30/2016 8:03:15 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Vermont Lt

is direct and extensive observation ‘ opinion’.
I live in one if the original weed capitals of Americam and
I can assure that there are many many ppl here that have intentionally self retarded themselves via yrs of pot smoking


98 posted on 05/31/2016 12:26:21 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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