That’s an excellent question. I’d be willing to be NO. I can’t picture a ganger-banger from Watts stepping into a local Revenue office and saying “Yo bitch, here’s my tax money foh all the weed I be selling.”
Here’s another thought...
Let’s say (for the sake of argument) that marijuana is legalized and taxed in California. The state govt would have to create a new bureacracy to deal with the taxation issues, IOW, more state jobs and more feeding off of the public trough by public employee unions.
And here’s another...
if California legalizes it, could that run afoul of any federal laws concerning manufacture and possession of marijuana, perhaps along the line of a multi-state drug-selling operation?
In short, it sounds like a disaster.
Like I said on a previous post, I will GLADLY pay the tax if I could be assured that I could use responsibly & not have my freedom taken away by an over-bearing government. Freedom isn’t free!