Welfare Cash for Weed in Colorado

National Review ^

[TigerClaws]

For the past six months, welfare beneficiaries in Colorado have repeatedly withdrawn their cash benefits at marijuana retailers and dispensaries, according to a new analysis by National Review Online. Such apparent abuses have caught the eye of Colorado’s executive and legislative powers alike, and the state has launched an effort to curb them.

[nascarnation]

No surprise on this.
A local tv station here in Indiana got a state file of TANF card swipes.

Vegas, Nevada brothels, Puerto Rico resorts, Disney (Ca and Fl) yadda yadda.

[dfwgator]

or the past six months, welfare beneficiaries in Colorado have repeatedly withdrawn their cash benefits at marijuana retailers and dispensaries

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Caption: Welfare cash for weed.

Response: Of course if it is harmful most people today are all for it.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A bunch of lazy layabouts are using their EBT cards to buy pot? I’m shocked.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Poor people have poor habits.

[nascarnation]

True, and feeding them subsidies from the working population doesn’t improve their integrity much it appears.

[jim_trent]

Well, its a vegetable, isn’t it?

[MadIsh32]

I wonder if National Review did a “bail out cash for cocaine” when Wall Street was bailed out back in 2008

[PGR88]

Just like you can’t have the welfare state and open borders, you especially can’t have the welfare state and legalized drugs.

[Wolfie]

Or booze, or cigarettes, or fatty foods.

[Vigilanteman]

It seems to me the state could easily profit from this. Give the more ambitious bunch of layabouts the right to grow and distribute weed in return for lower cash payments. Give the less ambitious bunch of layabouts the right to receive payments in weed in return for lower cash payments.

The state saves money and they all still vote Democrat.

[FlJoePa]

Dave’s not here man...

[A_perfect_lady]

I wouldn’t care if these types didn’t procreate.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I wonder what Michelle’s talking grocery carts are going to say about using your EBT card to buy pot.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[upchuck]

Food stamp and TANF abuse is epidemic.

In a volunteer job, I interview folks on these programs. Some of the stories I have heard are outrageous.

[GeronL]

No one is really surprised by what the pot-heads do, everything they said would not happen is happening

[1010RD]

Easily solved: Federal bounty that splits half of the twelve month savings with the tipster. The welfare cheats are permanently banned from receiving any form of government aid, including loans for education or housing. That would end it within a few months.

[Ken H]

So what did they use to buy illegal weed before? Cash from EBT cards, you say?

At least this returns about 15% of it back to CO. Kind of like a rewards card for welfare spending!