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Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year
cbs47 ^ | 9-27-09 | cakid1

Posted on 09/27/2009 2:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1

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To: Mojave
Pot legalization is a goal of the left.

Pot legalization is a goal of anyone who respects the Constitution.

81 posted on 09/27/2009 4:06:32 PM PDT by wireplay
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To: calex59

Are there any tobacco farmers here on FR? I’d buy 100 pounds of cigarette tobacco for $3 a pound or whatever the price is.
There are tobacco auctions from what I hear.

You have to assume that part of the law would allow you to grow it yourself. You can grow tobacco yourself, tobacco is taxed, yet most people don’t grow their own tobacco.

Today’s illegal drug dealers will likely see a big hit in their wallets. Some people will grow it themselves, others will buy it in stores and pay a tax. There won’t be much of a profit for pot smuggling.


82 posted on 09/27/2009 4:08:01 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: wireplay
Pot legalization is a goal of anyone who respects the Constitution.

Leftists love to tell big lies.

83 posted on 09/27/2009 4:08:16 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: cakid1
It would be worth it to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from our Wickardista drug warriors. Many of whom are still in the closet.
84 posted on 09/27/2009 4:10:59 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: truthfreedom
It was 1937 when the Marihuana Tax Act was passed. IIRC, it didn't criminalize it exactly...it just taxed it so highly that it made it nearly impossible to buy. One of the top promoters of criminalizing was Harry Anslinger, a racist to the core who equated marujiana use w/ blacks, demonic jazz / swing music, rape, & sex. Have you ever watched the 1930's film "Reefer Madness"?
85 posted on 09/27/2009 4:15:23 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: truthfreedom
One, there will be a profit because the idiots will tax the crap out of it just as they do cigarettes. Tobacco is harder to grow than pot, you can't hide it as easily as you can pot. MJ will soon cost more than you can get it on the black market, once the taxes reach that point illegal growers will again pop up and it will smuggled in just as it is today. Why? Because the government always kills the golden goose.

They actually take in less revenue now with cig then they did before they started taxing it, hence the constant raising of the cig tax in order to raise revenues which then drives more people to stop smoking and fewer revenues to be collected. Soon, and it may have already started, cigs will be smuggled in.

Don't believe me? Cigars of certain types are smuggled in now. Every once in a while they will make a big "illegal cigar" bust, and cigars haven't been taxed much until recently.

Making MJ legal should take the crime out of it, and it will for a while(-the growers who now grow it illegally will probably get out of the market, but farmers eager for a new crop will start up)but they will kill that off like they have cigs.

86 posted on 09/27/2009 4:19:17 PM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: ChrisInAR
It was 1937 when the Marihuana Tax Act was passed.

Not in affect for about forty years. Read a book.

87 posted on 09/27/2009 4:19:30 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: wireplay; Mojave

There are many of us on the Right that support the re-legalization of marijuana, too...I, for one. :-)

The rest of us in the other 49 are waiting on you Californians to “get ‘er done!” in repealing marijuana prohibition next year. God bless you & the state of California!


88 posted on 09/27/2009 4:22:40 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: truthfreedom
There is very very little tradition behind the illegality of pot in the US

There is no history of a "tradition" of pot use among white civilization or in the United States and it is still not a part of western culture, but it is a tradition in many of those laziest, most backward regions of the world, such as the Middle East.

89 posted on 09/27/2009 4:24:12 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ChrisInAR

Hopefully the potheads will be to stoned to go to the polls to vote now!


90 posted on 09/27/2009 4:25:49 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: ansel12
You mean thousands of years of alcohol based White, Western Culture, and now it is time for us to start adapting the thousands of years of Middle Eastern Hashish and Marijuana culture?

I see you are unfamiliar with the writings of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, AKA the Father of History.

If you want to defend Western Culture, it helps to know something about it.

91 posted on 09/27/2009 4:26:51 PM PDT by Palin Republic (Palin - Bachmann 2012 : Girl Power!)
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To: pallis

Stoned no...DRUNK is more the requirement for me!

I hate this sh!thole!


92 posted on 09/27/2009 4:30:01 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Randy Larsen

Nope...they are too pumped up to do that. We will celebrate AFTER we win in next year’s election (well, the Californians will, since I’m in AR; but I’m w/ them in spirit!)


93 posted on 09/27/2009 4:30:04 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: wireplay

It is up to the State. Legalize Pot and tax it. Like cigarettes; state tax $2.00/pack or 50-100% of wholesale price. Then the feds can tax it at minimum $1/pack or $24.75/pound (roll your own). Just like cigarettes are now!

Don’t legalize the hard drugs.


94 posted on 09/27/2009 4:31:14 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: ChrisInAR
There are many of us on the Right that support the re-legalization of marijuana

You can't tell your Right from your Left.

Conservative:

"Drugs like marijuana are fungible commodities. As the Court explains, marijuana that is grown at home and possessed for personal use is never more than an instant from the interstate market–and this is so whether or not the possession is for medicinal use or lawful use under the laws of a particular State." --Justice Antonin Scalia

Leftist:

“…There is just too much money to be made both by the people who grow marijuana and the cities and counties that would be able to tax it.” --Willie Brown

95 posted on 09/27/2009 4:32:05 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Kimmers
I always find it interesting that so many of the libtards that are anti smoking (cigarettes) are for the legalization of pot.......

The cannabis issue, for liberals, is like the gun issue to us.

The Federal Drug War is a great 'teaching moment' opportunity.

We can use the issue to help liberals understand the reason for federalism and state's rights.


96 posted on 09/27/2009 4:33:12 PM PDT by Palin Republic (Palin - Bachmann 2012 : Girl Power!)
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To: Mojave
Whatever...ROTFLMAO.

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." -- Abraham Lincoln;

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -Abraham Lincoln

97 posted on 09/27/2009 4:39:35 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: Palin Republic

I do know that western civilization is an alcohol based culture not a cannabis based culture like the Middle East.


98 posted on 09/27/2009 4:40:30 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ChrisInAR

I mean the political election, Gov,Senator,Congressmen,
Taxes...You get my drift?

I just want it taxed equally with tabacco.


99 posted on 09/27/2009 4:41:24 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Randy Larsen

That’s exactly what I was referring to also....the election in Nov. 2010, when Californians will stand up for their rights under the 10th Amendment to decide their own marijuana laws.

What you are probably referring to may be AFTER the 2010 election, after the law passes & the stoners are too stoned to go to the polls in 2012, correct?


100 posted on 09/27/2009 4:45:10 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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