Posted on 10/15/2014 10:34:50 AM PDT by Wolfie
Colorado marijuana revenues hit a new high
New figures from the Colorado Department of Revenue show that recreational marijuana sales continued to climb in August, the most recent month for which data are available. Recreational sales totaled approximately $34.1 million in August, up from $29.3 million the previous month.
Medical marijuana also jumped sharply in August, after several months of flat or declining sales. Medical sales figures were just under the recreational total, at $33.4 million. One goal of creating Colorado's recreational marijuana market is to shift customers away from the medical market.
The numbers suggest that work remains to be done on that front. Part of the challenge is that medical marijuana is taxed at lower rates than recreational marijuana, leading to significant price differences.
Total tax revenues from medical and recreational marijuana continue to edge upward. The state took in about $7.5 million in revenues from both markets in August, or about $45 million year-to-date.
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I believe you expressed approval of "out government's" drug laws. There was no attempt to qualify which government in evidence. The clear implication was that you meant all of them.
None of the governments in Madison time addressed the question of pot, to my knowledge. Again, the quote in the post is about the need for a government in the context of my discussions with a libertarian pro-pot poster. I don’t know why this reference to Madison is so significant to you, and I apologize if you feel I tried to mislead you or others as to the nature of Madison and the Founding Fathers and their views on pot.
Studies show one in six people who use pot become addicted. You have to assume no additional people will use pot if it's legal. It's incredibly naïve to believe that.
Legalizing pot will not end illegal pot either. The illegal market is alive and well in Colorado. That's clear already. What many pot heads will want next is free pot, not legal.
And you're ignoring the fact that many terrible consequences are manifesting themselves in Colorado from homeless pot head freeloaders showing up there to concerns about the new use by children.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/10/10/should-colorado-repeal-legal-marijuana/17037649/
So do I - to combat violations of individual rights ... which drug sale and use are not.
50 percent of voters responded that they did not agree with the decision to legalize recreational marijuana, while 46 percent said they still did agree.
49 percent said they disapproved of the way the state is managing the drug, while 42 percent gave the state's regulations positive marks.
For detailed crosstabs of the USA Today/Suffolk poll, visit http://bit.ly/1BMP5vp"
See you favor sale of heroin too. You’re really exposed as a crank, you know.
http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/colorado/2014/10/09/colorado-sheriff-seeing-more-illegal-pot-grows/16964755/
And the failure to make the distinction between state and federal governments is all good, because "it's about pot", right?
The failure was due to my inability to think that someone would come along and take great exception with me for not making clear for him what I believed was statement about government (not state, not federal) in general using a Madison quote to what he believes requires a constitutional exegesis about states rights and enumerated powers, I guess.
The failure to maintain that distinction foremost in legislative matters is how we get RINOs.
A...okay. Thanks for the input.
Locke and Montesquieu kept making that same mistake too, even when they were not posting about pot.
Well, there’s only so many hours in a day. Maybe I’ll get them next time :).
All the best,
I try to fix things today, because tomorrow is already important ;).
As I said, as a free society America has never imposed on itself the standards of its military.
Studies show one in six people who use pot become addicted. You have to assume no additional people will use pot if it's legal.
No I don't - addiction is a matter not just of chemistry but of patterns of use, which would change with legality.
Legalizing pot will not end illegal pot either. The illegal market is alive and well in Colorado.
There are illegal cigarettes where those are overtaxed - the answer is not to ban but to cut taxes.
And you're ignoring the fact that many terrible consequences are manifesting themselves in Colorado from homeless pot head freeloaders showing up there
They wold have been somewhere in any case, and it's not like Colorado had none previously - but certainly something for states to weigh in the balance.
to concerns about the new use by children.
No evidence at your link for new use by children.
This link shows greater pot use by kids. But since you think that's okay, I don't think you'll find that troubling or in anyway harmful to your cause. Pot seems to be a religion for you.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/high-school-youth-trends
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