Rep. Blumenauer: Marijuana Sales Taxes in Oregon to Be Spent on Drug Addiction Treatment

Cybercast News Service ^ | June 3, 2015 | 11:30 AM EDT | Melanie Hunter

[Olog-hai]

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said Wednesday on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that the tax revenue from legalized marijuana sales in his state will go in part towards treating drug addiction.

When asked how much Oregon will tax legalized marijuana and how the tax revenue will be spent, Blumenauer said it will be allocated among a number of things, one of which will be to deal with addiction.

“Voters decided that it’s available to deal with addiction, people who are addicted—whether it’s to a drug or alcohol, gambling—we need more resources,” he said, adding that some voters want it to go towards law enforcement and education. …

[Olog-hai]

Those that are addicted to liberalism will receive no help at all.

[Buckeye McFrog]

yeah....RIIIIIIIIGHT!

[TigersEye]

...tax revenue from legalized marijuana sales in his state will go in part towards treating drug addiction.

The truth is always in the fine print. The rest goes to pet projects. Maybe an "Acceptance of Transgendered Athletes" program or something.

[DiogenesLamp]

Rep. Blumenauer: Marijuana Sales Taxes in Oregon to Be Spent on Drug Addiction Treatment

The taxes won't keep up with the costs. The whole idea is an attempt at a perpetual motion machine. It has losses, and will never run off the power it generates.

[showme_the_Glory]

perpetual motion?

[bgill]

Just spewed meatloaf on the screen at that headline.

[dowcaet]

So in order to fund drug addiction programs the state of Oregon is hoping the potheads buy even more pot. Then the potheads graduate to other drugs and become addicts themselves. Liberalism is messed up royally.

[tacticalogic]

The taxes won't keep up with the costs. The whole idea is an attempt at a perpetual motion machine. It has losses, and will never run off the power it generates.

Pot's a gateway drug, so they'll all be mainlining heroin by the end of the month, and nobody will be buying pot any more.

[DiogenesLamp]

Pot's a gateway drug, so they'll all be mainlining heroin by the end of the month, and nobody will be buying pot any more.

I think it will take a bit longer than a month, but I firmly believe that this road leads in that direction.

[tacticalogic]

I think it will take a bit longer than a month, but I firmly believe that this road leads in that direction.

How long do you figure?

[DiogenesLamp]

How long do you figure?

I'm sure it varies by person and their circumstances, but as Chekov noted, if a gun is hanging on the wall in one scene, it will go off before the play is ended.

[tacticalogic]

I'm sure it varies by person and their circumstances, but as Chekov noted, if a gun is hanging on the wall in one scene, it will go off before the play is ended.

Open-ended time frames are a good way to make predictions and insure you can never be proven wrong.

[central_va]

[DiogenesLamp]

Open-ended time frames are a good way to make predictions and insure you can never be proven wrong.

Specific exceptions are often used as a tool in misleading attempts to disprove a general occurrence.

As the physicists have noted for nearly a century, you take any radioactive isotope, and it is impossible to say with certainty that a particular atom of it will undergo the fission process, but collectively, you can predict with a great deal of accuracy that a certain number of them will.

[tacticalogic]

As the physicists have noted for nearly a century, you take any radioactive isotope, and it is impossible to say with certainty that a particular atom of it will undergo the fission process, but collectively, you can predict with a great deal of accuracy that a certain number of them will.

That might be a valid analogy if you were actually making empirically verifiable predictions.

[tacticalogic]

Your isotope analogy also suffers from failure to take into consideration that the atoms don’t die, so the prediction that eventually it’s bound to happen fails in every case where someone died before it did.

[DiogenesLamp]

That might be a valid analogy if you were actually making empirically verifiable predictions.

That drug availability will increase drug usage and addiction is a fairly well proven and self evident prediction.

[tacticalogic]

That drug availability will increase drug usage and addiction is a fairly well proven and self evident prediction.

That's a different prediction that what was originally posited - that the marijuana users will eventually all become heroin users.

[DiogenesLamp]

Your isotope analogy also suffers from failure to take into consideration that the atoms don’t die, so the prediction that eventually it’s bound to happen fails in every case where someone died before it did.

The population demographic represented by those susceptible to drug addiction doesn't die either. Individual members may do so, but they are replaced by others who share this same susceptibility.

[tacticalogic]

The population demographic represented by those susceptible to drug addiction doesn't die either. Individual members may do so, but they are replaced by others who share this same susceptibility.

The prediction was for all users, not just those susceptible to addiction.