Posted on 07/11/2017 2:17:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last month I gave the keynote address at the Cannabis World Congress Business Expo in New York City. CWCBExpo is the trade show for the cannabis industry. I had the pleasure of meeting thousands of like-minded cannabis activists, and the experience was truly refreshing and inspiring on many levels.
I learned firsthand that those in the legal cannabis industry — whether they're growing hemp, medical marijuana or recreational marijuana in Colorado or California or Oregon or wherever — have formed a united front. Everyone at the convention was looking to work together to come up with solutions on how to get the federal government to move forward and embrace this industry, which has grown exponentially.
When it comes to economics, let me put the state of marijuana to you in this way: If Trump reverses state law, he'll be crippling if not bankrupting the states that have legalized marijuana. Not only will this action go against the will of the people who voted for legalized marijuana, this action will cause yet another economic collapse. And no, that isn't an exaggeration.
Over half of the states have now legalized marijuana in some way and multiple states are receiving millions, soon to be billions, in tax revenue from this industry. When those states no longer have this tax revenue coming in (tax revenue that is projected to increase steadily each year), where will that money come from?
Think about it this way: The auto industry was bailed out with roughly $80 billion from taxpayer money, but it is still here, and the industry was able to repay taxpayers overtime.....
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It will turn hordes into zombies for whom the only answer will be to get clean.
My message to Trump is "let them smoke hemp" and suffer from the error of their ways.
That's the only way the truth will emerge about pot.
When you count on money from a federally illegal product..
Well, your stupid.
Maybe not such a huge shock. We all knew there was something dreadfully wrong with that POS. Maybe now, we know why. 😀
Yep, that war on drugs sure stopped people from smoking that shit.
By what mechanism can “Trump reverse state law”?
Jesse talking out of his a$$ again
I often wonder something:
If there was no illegal immigration, where millions of people that hate us bear children or come across the border with kids, just to suck off the government nipple....OR...if there was no, out of control, refugee program, where millions of people that hate the US, come here and get all the goodies that the US taxpayer has to offer....AND....if the elected officials and government bureaucrats, were actually good stewards of the peoples money, only paying for the few things that government is supposed to pay for......
Just how much money this country would have. Just how much money the taxpayers of this country, would have.
A state wouldn’t need to grow weed, in order to survive. Not that I’m against it, per se. At this point, unless they build a YUGE, GIGANTIC WALL, with a moat and alligators, piranha’s and motion detecting M2s, every 50yds and “really” secure our southern border, I’d rather they just legalize it.
No reason the Cartels, the Mexican Mafia and all the other criminal entities, should continue to make they money they make and undermine this place.
A friend lives in Denver. She hates it and the homeless that it has attracted. Said the city is being overrun with homeless, potheads, from all over the place.
Think about it, though, Oregon just basically legalized everything under the sun, so maybe they’ll ease the burden a little.
I don’t care what this has been says
Maybe he and Stone can get some swinger parties going
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
'Nuff said.
Overturn Wickard v. Filburn!!!
Okay, I might have added the last sentence but in the words of Dan Rather, the quote was 'fake but accurate.'
Read the history of Needle Park in Zurich
Correction: not calling cableguymn stupid, but whoever challenges Fedzilla.
If the potheads in these states can spend that much cash on dope, they surely had plenty to pay more taxes.
The Cartels are shifting more toward prostitution (including child prostitution). Criminal enterprises adapt.
it’s a park not a state. yes people were attracted to it, being the only place to go pretty much in the civilized world and it got stupid.
Has the United States been crippled for almost 250 years?
“As a former pothead, I despise pot.”
Same here.
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