Posted on 07/07/2017 7:28:55 AM PDT by rktman
The first four days of legal recreational marijuana sales generated $3 million in sales revenue and about $500,000 in tax revenue, putting Nevada on pace to achieve an estimated $30 million in sales revenue over the next six months of recreational sales, according to the Nevada Dispensary Association.
The sales figure was generated from Saturday’s first day of recreational marijuana sales to Tuesday. The tax rate for recreational pot is 33 to 38 percent, depending on local regulations, with all state and local taxes included.
“We had a higher demand than everybody initially thought,” dispensary association director Riana Durrett said. “It shows this market really exists.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Weed is the gateway drug to opioids from all I've read.
Math much?
The gateway drug thing has always been silly. And really in the modern version of America if there’s a gateway to opioids it’s your doctor’s front door.
Maybe. It took 75 years of criminalization to figure out that maybe that wasn’t so spiffy.
CO has the lowest unemployment rate in the country => https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
How many that start smoking the gateway drug marijuana start with liquor or cigarettes? You know what illegal weed does? It make people go to drug dealers to get weed. If those folks sell other drugs...and many do...people are forced into the proximity of other illegal drugs. There is no meth counter at the marijuana dispensaries.
You can buy started plants. Here’s a kick in the head for all those folks that used to curse the stems and seeds that comprised half of that $60 ounce you bought in the ‘70s. Seeds are going for $9 each in my Oregon town.
Two thirds of traffic fatalities involve no alcohol. I believe other drugs are a factor in 16% of traffic accidents. Sounds like it time to end unimpaired driving.
Anything that reduces inhibitions can be a gateway to harder substances or abuse
I know someone who paid dearly for some seeds. My experience from college is that the drying process can be hazardous to the seeds because some people use an oven.
And people wonder why weed stinks. Cure it like tobacco.
In my experience using medical cannabis it doesn’t dissolve one’s inhibitions or obliterate one’s moral compass like alcohol does.
I’ve been using it since 2015 and Jesus Christ is the way to the Father just the same today as then and forever shall be, amen.
Your position is not a conservative one.
That's the way it was from the time of the Founders until the Progressives took over.
What math? Quoting the tax rates as stated in the article is “math”?
It is if you leave these decisions to the respective States. Meth, cocaine, LSD...all legal at one time.
The total of tax and product can still be cheaper than black market prices. Kinda the point of the whole legalization scheme.
Letting the states decide is a far more conservative position than allowing the feds to have a say.
“You can grow more than you can legally possess....”
That seems like a SERIOUS problem with the writing of the law.
An average DA could easily argue that you were in possession of more than your legal amount - just by your having it. A person’s intent to give away the surplus - at some unknown time in the future - is totally irrelevant.
What is the legal process/regulation/rule for destroying surplus in accordance with the law?
(I really don’t think that they wrote it like it’s been described here... seems way to ambiguous.)
“Alcohol is a MUCH bigger problem than weed is...”
95% of my people have substance abuse issues in one form or another. So that makes about 150 people that I actively see on a very regular basis in an office, at their employment, and in their homes. Out of those roughly 150 persons, only 2 of them have alcohol abuse issues.
The rest is pot, pot + cocaine, Cocaine, Meth, Meth + pot, Opiates, Benzos, and a dabbling of MDMA and heroin (heroin is not big in this area)... and a general mix of all of this. But ALL of them start with pot. MOST keep using pot.
Alcohol is a total non-issue.
Not ONE person on my caseload - at this time - was drunk on alcohol when they committed their felony. Roughly 65% had THC in their system. 95% of my people are and/or were drug users.
Their crimes range from felony theft to armed robbery to murder.
“Drugs” are the #1 issue regarding felony crime and felony criminal behavior. It all stems from it.
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