Posted on 12/01/2020 7:51:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The push to legalize recreational weed in New Jersey includes a new “social equity” tax that would benefit communities of color disproportionately affected by drug laws.
Bills by both the Senate and Assembly allow the Cannabis Regularly Commission to levy an optional Social Equity Excise Fee for programs aimed at alleviating racial disparities
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Much ado about nothing.
Weed is legalized so that the dopers can show the police a sales receipt from a legalized operation when they get in trouble.
They aren’t going to buy high priced, high taxed legal weed.
It was a bribe to the black leaders who didn’t support the legalization of pot.
Rule of life #7,650: Every new law in New Jersey includes a new tax or fee. All of them.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Commodore, but if a drug dealer is a person of color, won’t he be affected disproportionately by this law?
Make the tax twice the actual cost of the product, hehehe
Marijuana should be free for people of color. Also, give them a share of the opium that the CIA harvests from Afghanistan. Opium dens in ghettos sounds like a way to go.
I thought this was already passed on the NJ ballot and pretty much already considered law???
Thas cool, ‘cuz I be trans black.
Japan helped finance its aggression in China by making opium legal for Cbinese. Corrupt regimes always resort to legalized vice to raise their growing need for more funds, much of which is skimmed.
I’m thinking...why buy it through the legal channels. Hell, weed has been widely available on the streets.
Take a liberal to think of something so damn stupid.
The special tax funds will go to “programs” that will give grants to . . . . . . . . . . . . . “social activist” non-profits that will advocate for more “social equity” programs and more funding for “social equity” programs. In other words the funding will help build an industry of “social activism”.
They aren’t going to buy high priced, high taxed legal weed.
Legal weed is selling very well in most legalizing states.
Yep brain Novocaine is no exception.
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