Posted on 06/14/2021 7:57:30 PM PDT by grundle
This is hilarious. Instead of reducing the excessive regulations, the government is planning to spend $100 million to help business owners deal with the regulations.
In addition, seven different environmental organizations have complained about the effects of legal marijuana on the environment.
In California, the left is eating itself.
As a libertarian, I am in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana, and I am against excessive regulation of businesses. The fact that California wants to spend this $100 million, instead of reducing the excessive regulations, is hilarious.
Here’s the article:
Does the money come from the anti-drug abuse unds that were probably promised when this was on the ballot?
Only Leftist economics could drive cannabis out of business in California. Just like running out of fish and coal in the UK, an island made of coal and surrounded by fish. Plucking morons!
When the State of New York ran off-track betting, they became the only bookie to ever consistently lose money. California is right on their tail.
Interesting article—it looks like high taxes are there as well.
The illegal distributors will not have to pay any tax—which of course is subsidizing illegal distributors!
If these greedy leftard tyrants were really for their people they would be able to legally grow a pot plant or two on their own property but that would mean they wouldn’t be able to extort their tax fees. If leftards want to put that mind-altering smoke vapor into their lungs let them be able to do it in the privacy of their own homes. Leftards are their own worst enemy.
“seven different environmental organizations have complained about the effects of legal marijuana on the environment”
total idiots ... the thousands of acres of illegal pot grown in northern CA by the Mexican cartels are causing unbelievably devastating environment destruction, NOT the mom and pop growers ATTEMPTING to be legal ... naturally, not much is being done to stop the cartel growers, while the legal growers are being hounded out of existence ... it’s a quintessential California Bizzaro World outcome ...
that’s why my bookie isn’t in a union...
CA is going classic third world—the black market is the real market and the reported numbers about anything are a big joke.
The government can’t even run a whorehouse. The Feds took over the “Bunny Ranch” in Nevada iirc, and it went out of business.
I don’t smoke dope and I don’t really care for it, it is bad for growing boys and girls. I remember back in the day, it seemed like the best anyone could do was “It should be legal, and tax the skit out of it!!!”
I don’t understand why whether something is legal or not is contingent on giving the government profits, get right down to it. A carton of ciggies should be $10, instead it’s $75, all tax. Which is then wasted on stupid stuff.
The tax revenues were ... high at first but I expect weed will get to be too expensive to buy in states where it is legal. The Laffer Curve in action. The un-taxed weed would look mighty tempting.
Or why wouldn’t potheads grow it at home? It can’t be too tough.
Funny thing, another name for the “black market” is the “free market”. See this with currency exchange rates a lot in foreign countries. Or put another way
“In Philadelphia, it’s 50 bucks.”
If taxes are low and regulations are minimal then there is no need for a black market, the (relatively) free market meets the needs of everyone.
As taxes and regulations grow, the need for a market that ignores them increases.
When a product is totally banned, of course, the only free market becomes the black market.
It’s crazy times. Walking into a retail cannibis store.
Unthinkable as a kid. When we used to score nickel bags from the brothers in Overbrook
You walk in and there is like 100 different kinds of killer. Funny names
I’m kinda old now and don’t smoke. I do like the chocolates and gummies
A lot
If I understand correctly, many states set a minimum price for growers to sell to distributors. The only problem with that is that the cartels do not care about minimums oartially explaining why pot “imports” to the US are still so strong. (legalised pot was to have solved those “imports”)
That Sacramento Cartel is a force to be reckoned with.
I’m surprised anyone can sell pot in CA when neighbors give away jars of it like canned tomatoes.
It’s everywhere and mostly free.
If farmers who grow regular crops are denied due to protecting fish or drought conditions, then so should marijuana growers.
I think his name was Eric Garner, the guy in NYC who was selling “loosies”, individual cigarettes, and the cops pinned him to the ground. It snowballed from there. Turns out he had a heart condition or something like that and he died. This was blamed on “Racism”. Standard leftist BS tactic.
What the “news” never mentioned, he was just trying to get through the day. Selling “untaxed” tobacco was one way to do it, BECAUSE a pack of ciggies is probably 10 bucks in Manhattan. Truth be told, if they didn’t set confiscatory tax rates Mr. Garner wouldn’t have been filling that market.
All kinds of major crimes go overlooked, but selling individual ciggies and denying NYC their “cut”, well we’ll deploy SWAT for that. Totally insane. They created this problem in the first place, and then make it worse, that is their only response.
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