Posted on 02/22/2021 4:31:40 PM PST by BeauBo
Legislation to set up a recreational marijuana marketplace, decriminalize cannabis and loosen penalties for underage possession of the drug and alcohol was signed into law Monday by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy...
The legislation makes underage possession of alcohol and marijuana subject to a written warnings that escalate to include parental notification and a referral to community services upon subsequent violations....
Part of the legislation makes it so towns will no longer have the authority to enact ordinances with civil penalties or fines concerning underage possession or consumption violations on private property, among other measures...
“There’s no consequence,” GOP Sen. Bob Singer said. “We’re now saying if you’re caught with it underage it’s a free pass.”...
The marketplace legalization bill applies the state’s 6.625% sales tax... Towns can levy a tax of up to 2% under the measure.
Also under the bill, the Cannabis Regulatory Commission will be able to levy an excise tax, the amount of which will depend on the cost per ounce of cannabis ($10-$60 per ounce)...
The number of licenses for cultivators will be set at 37 for two years. The state Senate was pushing for no limits, but the Assembly wanted the caps (individuals can't grow their own, without one of those licenses).
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
A highly controlled and taxed activity, with a big role for the State in the market.
So a formal government takeover...
>>The legislation makes underage possession of alcohol and marijuana subject to a written warnings that escalate to include parental notification and a referral to community services upon subsequent violation
“If we catch you drinking we MAY tell your parents!”
Great. More drunk kids on the road.
“The number of licenses for cultivators will be set at 37 for two years.”
I hope that’s enough to drive the cartels out of the market - and th they raise the number if it’s not.
Prices are very high for legal weed....easily undercut and the law just stops busting anyone unless they are complete idiots...I for one am for decriminalizing...but the politicians get in on distributorships and growing facilities....some seriously strong buds get grown...I saw it all happen in Maine. The end result is not beneficial.
Dave?
Daves not home.
Nothing like giving New Jerseyans the means of making themselves even dumber.
That’s right...drug everyone up so they won’t notice the horrible things you’re doing to destroy this country. Interfere with the proper development of kids’ brains so they won’t know the difference between red and blue, black or white, or right and wrong. Perfect Dimmocommie fodder.
Two emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.
Dr. Karen Randall, who trained in pediatrics and emergency medicine, spent years as an ER doctor in Detroit, but Pueblo turned out to be a whole other level. “It’s like a horror movie,” she told The Epoch Times.
Every shift in the ER brings in a patient with cannabinoid hyperemesis. In layman’s terms, that means someone is screaming and vomiting uncontrollably.
The sound is wretched and apocalyptic. It’s caused by chronic cannabis use, usually high-potency products, and it stops when the person stops using cannabis.
Then there’s the psychosis. “I was in Detroit for 18 years and the cannabis psychosis here is worse than anything I saw in Detroit,” Randall said. “They’re very violent. The combination of this high potency THC and meth just creates this incredibly violent person.”
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in today’s marijuana products, is now being extracted to reach a potency of more than 80 percent. In the 1990s, the average potency of a joint was around 4 percent THC.
Dr. Brad Roberts said he’s seeing more and more patients with psychosis who have no previous psychiatric history and are testing positive only for THC.
Que FR addicts who only show their pockmarked faces to push this nefarious agenda. Nothing noble about it. And addicts certainly aren't free.
But go to great lengths to post a lengthy, well reasoned post since I never read them anyway. I do get a chuckle out of knowing how much trouble you go to.
Yup. Illegal marijuana will always be cheaper than legal, regulated marijuana.
Hard to believe that New Jersey's drivers could get worse -- but they will.
“I never read them anyway.”
When we reply to your posts, we’re not really talking to you.
“drug everyone up”
People drug themselves up - many with alcohol.
Their pot law is dumb, at least.
All their dispensaries will fold up inside of a year, and people will still be getting high.
They prevailed.
Get over it.
You’ll never change the reality on the ground.
Rare. But one of those “It hurts when I do this.”/“Don’t do that.” problems.
We need “Medical” methamphetamine...
"Hope" is NOT a strategy...
“Then there’s the psychosis.”
THC is a potent dopamine agonist (increases the neurotransmitter dopamine).
Most anti-psychotic drugs work by suppressing dopamine.
Borderline psychotics can cross over the line with relatively common recreational doses of THC, but anyone will hallucinate (the hallmark of psychosis) from a high enough dose of THC, relative to their individual tolerance.
I frankly had not given much thought to folks mixing it with meth, but of course meth-heads would mix anything. Sounds like a scary bad combo, when they are over the line.
A sub-psychotic dose of THC tends to relieve anxiety and increase appetite, but once the dose crosses into the hallucinatory range, they are essentially tripping, like some dose of LSD. All bets are off on how an individual might react, depending on what their mental health is like, what is going on in their lives, and what other drugs might be mixed in.
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