Posted on 07/04/2016 8:09:00 AM PDT by rktman
One of the nations leading experts on marijuana and criminal justice fears Californias ballot to legalize marijuana could result in plummeting prices and rising rates of marijuana disorder.
Professor Mark Kleinman, an adjunct scholar at the Center for American Progress excoriates the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which qualified for a November ballot June 28.
The bill allows commercial legalization of marijuana and six plants per household, with no limits on the quantity produced but a ban on sales and advertising to minors. California would impose a $9.75 tax (33 cents per gram) of flowers and a 15 percent sales tax on the retail price on top of the states regular sales tax.
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No it’s not too simple and sraightforward to let states decide issues such as marijuana legalization.
I was trying to address it from the standpoint that these drugs are dangerous if used recklessly, and that there are reasons why we made certain drugs illegal in the first place.
If we want to be strictly libertarian, then every state should make everything legal if their citizens decide to do so. If there’s no other considerations, then that’s what should be done.
I’m clearly a minority here, but, just saying, drug addiction/drug abuse cost our society dearly, and there are other considerations besides the 10th amendment and libertarian ideology.
i smoke neither cigarettes or pot, but at $1 per gram plus taxes, it looks like an ounce of pot will cost about the same as a carton of cigarettes.
that’s right Farmer Dean you are so right
Well at such low prices it would be a lot easier for any lowlife to afford marijuana and re-sell it to kids for a profit.
Watch Reefer Madness. Better yet, talk to some of your local pot smoking wastrels. A short (say, 2min) conversation should be enough for any sane person to establish that they don't want to become like them.
(although I'm doubtful you want to take an objective look at the subject) I recommend reading a book called Weed the People.
Yes, I need to research pot and potheads immediately. I have to put that molecular dynamics kinetic theory project on the side for now.
According to the article, $95 per ounce in WA.
LOL!
There are also reasons why we have the War on Poverty and Obamacare. The reasons have nothing to do with poverty or health care.
There were no 'illegal' drugs at the Federal level in this country until the Progressives took control. National drug prohibition was put in place for the same reason as the War on Poverty and ObamaCare.
Im clearly a minority here, but, just saying, drug addiction/drug abuse cost our society dearly, and there are other considerations besides the 10th amendment and libertarian ideology.
What do you mean by 'other considerations besides the Tenth Amendment'?
Maybe you should also say that there are other considerations besides the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, since the Drug War has trampled those, too.
Sanity and common sense puts anyone in the minority.
10% to 20% of teenagers smoke pot. That's a pretty big demand right there.
“Because as we know from the FR dope smokers, even Nobel physics laureates and Millenium prize winners owe their success to regular drug use.”
You could probably make a case that one winner of the Nobel peace prize owes his success to regular drug use, or at least it hasn’t prevented his success.
I wonder who that is...
Two major weed growing operations...cartels...busted in NoCal and So Oregon this week.
That’s still illegal.
Getting back to 70’s prices.
Voting, driving, breeding.
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