I disagree with Mike about the pot tax for several reasons. First, it makes Colorado officially a narco state e.g. they derive income specifically from the sale of a controlled substance. Also it will simply drive the “home grown” industry and feed the black market trade, just like before. And finally the money always goes into some sort of slush fund that gets diverted from its original purpose.
Grow a couple of pot plants correctly. Sell the results to yer lazy pot head buddies. profit. The state gets nada.
Better choice is to go to the drug dealer than pay the tax.
WA is facing the same types of dilemnas. The latest is bank and financial institution funding. The banks would love to lend to pot entrepreneurs, but apparently their federal regulation doesn’t allow it.
I don’t know if it was here or someplace else that somebody was complaining about the smell of marijuana in public places in Seattle. They may have been exaggerating, but I have noticed it when I go down there. You notice it on city buses. Obviously people can’t smoke on buses, but it’s like their clothes and hair is saturated with it or something.
Between the marijuana in Seattle and the bikini espresso stands(fronts for prostitution , many of them) in Everett, it’s kind of like Amsterdam .