Posted on 12/27/2018 2:38:53 PM PST by Mariner
When Californians voted in 2016 to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, advocates of the move envisioned thousands of pot shops and cannabis farms obtaining state licenses, making the drug easily available to all adults within a short drive.
But as the first year of licensed sales comes to a close, California’s legal market hasn’t performed as state officials and the cannabis industry had hoped. Retailers and growers say they’ve been stunted by complex regulations, high taxes and decisions by most cities to ban cannabis shops. At the same time, many residents are going to city halls and courts to fight pot businesses they see as nuisances, and police chiefs are raising concerns about crime triggered by the marijuana trade.
Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, who played a large role in the legalization of cannabis, will inherit the numerous challenges when he takes office in January as legislators hope to send him a raft of bills next year to provide banking for the pot industry, ease the tax burden on retailers and crack down on sales to minors.
“The cannabis industry is being choked by California’s penchant for over-regulation,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML, a pro-legalization group. “It’s impossible to solve all of the problems without a drastic rewrite of the law, which is not in the cards for the foreseeable future.”
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The CA law allows every adult to grow six plants to maturity, and keep the proceeds. And to "gift" up to an ounce to any other adult.
Additionally, retail pot costs twice as much as black market pot due to regulation and taxes.
They must have been high when they developed their business plan.
For your interest.
Whut?...................................
So potheads weren’t as smart as they thought they were. Imagine that.
California Uber Alles!
California couldn’t run a fool proof perpetual motion machine. . . .
All I know is when I go to California to visit relatives, the stench of pot is everywhere. Even with the car windows rolled up, it smells like a skunk was run over on every major street corner.
I saw $80 a quarter ounce retail online. Greedy, greedy, greedy. And, no, I don’t no mo...not at those prices!
[The CA law allows every adult to grow six plants to maturity]
Grow it on your deck or in your garden for free.
Over regulation and high taxes can destroy an entire economy, but don’t expect that idea to ever take hold in California.
Dave’s not here.
Legalized pot in any state is a libertarian wet dream.
Why? God only knows.
The whole point of legalizing it is to increase the tax base. Which ALWAYS leads to more government spending.
Higher Taxes. More Spending.
This is what liberaltarians want.
Yeah, yeah. Libertarians want their freedom to trip thought life high on dope. Yet they willingly and even eagerly sacrifice other essential freedoms to live that way.
Libertarians. /hock spit.
This is the dirty little secret of legalized dope. Because what you say is true, The State must spend millions of dollars more in cracking down on black market dope and uncollected marijuana taxes.
“How is 6 plants the basis of a pot farm?”
When multiplied by even 10 million adults, it’s much, much bigger.
6 plants to maturity, outdoors in the ground will produce no less than 25lbs of trimmed buds.
Comment #1 BUMP!
“This is the dirty little secret of legalized dope.”
Only for a single season and thousands of failed legal businesses.
Then everyone goes black market.
Time to legalize meth. For the children.
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