Posted on 12/17/2021 1:28:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
The industry leaders asked for an immediate lifting of the cultivation tax placed on growers, a three-year holiday from the excise tax and an expansion of retail shops throughout much of the state. It’s estimated that about two-thirds of California cities remain without dispensaries, since it’s up to local governments to authorize sales and production.
Companies, executives and groups signing the letter included the California Cannabis Industry Association, the California arm of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the Los Angeles-based United Cannabis Business Association, Flow Kana Inc., Harborside Inc., and CannaCraft.
In a conference call with reporters, Darren Story of Strong Agronomy said tough market conditions forced him to cut loose more than half his staff. He said taxes that will increase next year make it an easy choice for shoppers. With prices in the underground half of what they see on legal shelves, he said “most consumers are going to take off.”
The companies asked Newsom to include their proposals in his upcoming budget proposal, which will be released early next year.
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As all things Leftist only failure is their success.
This is all bullish!$$. I heard a long time ago there’s pot in every chicken.
Government is the greediest, most corrupt/incompetent and murderous force on Earth.
RE: The government couldn’t keep a whorehouse in business.
You mean in addition to the US Capitol?
They don’t use the term Madame Speaker Pelosi for nothing. And they say “send this budget memo over to the House.”
They actually thought weed would makes everyone rich ,LOL
RE: Government is the greediest, most corrupt/incompetent and murderous force on Earth.
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True.
And it has a negative side, too.
(Paraphrase of Hunter S. Thompson ——
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
Lol, “society.”
Drop out teens can sell weed and make good money, but leave it to politicians to screw this ip
HAHAHA. Government drug dealers doing all they can to stop the competition. Oregon just announed a relief program for “legal’ pot farmers.
Legal pot got taxed and regulated to over $5 a gram of pot.
Illegal pot took the much better legal pot strains and sells for under $15 a gram.
Only the government is dumb enough to lose money selling pot.
The first part of the con was the state selling dispensary licenses (a piece of paper) for thousands upon thousands in order to raise millions of dollars.
The second part of the con was that these dispensaries would never be able to compete with illegal dealers. Without probable cause for law enforcement to stop motorists and pedestrians chooming along in a cloud of smoke, users can buy cheaper illegal weed.
Well Congress is still in business.
Sure they can, they’ve kept Congress going for years.
She should divorce him.
Hey man, all those libs and liberaltarians said this would bring in the golden age and solve all our problems.
Let's wait for the Obamas to complain of a “pot desert....” Must be white supremacy, toxic masculinity, equity problems and a touch of climate change, or in the case of an ex-president, “chump change.”
In your opinion only. Get government out of it. See how quick it comes back. Of course, self righteous "Conservatives" LOVE that big gubmint, so long as it's THEIR big gubmint.
It's music to my ears!
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