Posted on 07/04/2016 8:09:00 AM PDT by rktman
One of the nation’s leading experts on marijuana and criminal justice fears California’s 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 state’s regular sales tax.
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People smoking pot should not be voting.
A state completely gone to pot. Glad I don’t live there.
"The power to tax is the power to destroy."
Hard to pinpoint a definite cause — it may just be our awful school systems — but I seem to run across a lot of dumb people working basic jobs.
They move so slow. They can’t figure out simple tasks — like putting donuts into a bag. They do that (about a thousand times a day) day after day, week after week, and every time I ask them to put donuts in a bag, it’s like they have to invent the solution all over again. It’s a struggle, but they eventually manage it.
I tend to think these people are being treated for “anxiety” via prescription marijuana.
People who don’t own land should not be voting.
That’s awesome. As Freeper Reefer smokers have shown, smoking dope regularly piles up the cash in your bank accounts and turns you into a successful, wealthy person. Not only that, with these low prices, it’s gonna be easier for a generation of kids to improve their grades through dope smoking. Because as we know from the FR dope smokers, even Nobel physics laureates and Millenium prize winners owe their success to regular drug use.
I am totally opposed to legalizing pot. But one thing is for certain. If this does pass it’s going to kill the pot side of the drug trafficking trade and all of the crime and violence that goes with it.
The smugglers will have to find something else to bring across the border that government has banned, possibly incandescent light bulbs or plastic bags.
Massive AntiGun laws and legalized Dope,
Fundamental Transformation.
Yes,I get It !
Tax and Spend liberals. They have been destroying Taxifornia for decades now.
Per gram in CA will be $1 plus $.33 tax plus 15% sales tax comes to $1.53 per gram.
So with 28.35 grams per ounce, that comes to $43 per ounce in CA.
The Drug Cartels are set up and ready to supply the US with California grown WEED
They will. I bet there’s already been some shift in substances. Look at the news stories out there now about heroin, etc. in the suburbs
Finally I can be ahead of the curve. Gonna run out and get my 6 plants planted. rofl
Yup.
Will the government be selling to kids, or will they have to get their dope from biker gangs like usual?
Choom lack a lack a!
Or allowed public assistance unless dying.
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