In Washington State during my lifetime, we always had almost no enforcement of marijuana laws. Illegal sales were already close to a $1 billion. It didn’t seem like it would make much of a difference.
The legal marijuana industry now has $2 billion in sales far more than both alcohol and tobacco combined. There is an excise tax of 37% on marijuana plus approximately 10% in sales taxes... the highest taxes of any legal marijuana state in the country. Add to this very lax enforcement almost to the point of non-existent enforcement and there is a strong incentive for a black market. And indeed illegal marijuana sales have more than doubled. Washington state has been flooded with marijuana.
What is it like when over $4 billion of marijuana is being burned in the places where you live and work? It ain’t perty!!! In the place where we live you can’t drive down the road without the skunk like odor filling your car from drivers smoking pot in the cars ahead of you. You can’t leave your windows open at night without the smell of marijuana saturating your house.
In most of the cities in Western Washington homelessness has gone up 50% or more in recent years. It smells like a marijuana bonfire when you pass the camps which now seem like they are everywhere.
The Democrats own this mess; I would think that there will eventually be some type of backlash.
What is it like when over $4 billion of marijuana is being burned in the places where you live and work? It ain’t perty!!! In the place where we live you can’t drive down the road without the skunk like odor filling your car from drivers smoking pot in the cars ahead of you. You can’t leave your windows open at night without the smell of marijuana saturating your house.
In most of the cities in Western Washington homelessness has gone up 50% or more in recent years. It smells like a marijuana bonfire when you pass the camps which now seem like they are everywhere.
If things are bad now in your state, California and other states, just wait until Biden and our Congress get their teeth into this huge untaxed morsel across our fruited plains.
Then, we will have Big Mary Jane at the private level, city/county level and state level with congre$$ taxing, creating new bureaus to fund and regulate every level of the growth of MJ, harvesting, marketing and of course taxing it at the various levels.
Also, how will the Mexican Cartels handle this possibly huge loss of their product and sales?