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Maybe malt shops can make a comeback.
Posted on 08/20/2024 12:51:51 PM PDT by thegagline
The first five days of legal weed sales in Ohio generated more than $11.5 million, the state has reported.
The newly formed Ohio Division of Cannabis Control released the figures for marijuana distribution by licensed dispensaries within the Buckeye State, where recreational purchases by adults over 21 were allowed for the first time.
Stores sold 1,285 pounds of marijuana flower and more than 173,000 other products, such as vaporizer cartridges and edibles.
Under Ohio law, 10% of all marijuana sales go to the Department of Taxation, while a 5.75% charge is also added to all Ohio purchases as sales tax, with individual counties having the option to add even more.
That adds up to more than $1.8 million in new tax revenue for Ohio — in less than a week.
These numbers are on trend with other states who have made recreational puffing legal.
Colorado, the first state to legalize, scored about $1 million in new tax revenue during its first week of sales back in 2014.
Illinois, the largest state in the Midwest by population, raked in more than $2 million in 2018; while Michigan — Ohio’s neighbor to the north — only saw about $270,000 during their first week of sales in December, 2019.
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Most of that was Kamala.
Sounds like it’s time to invest in pizza shops in Ohio….
Was Harris not supposed to prosecute cannabis arrests as district attorney?
I don’t get that line of attack.
I believe it is a matter of record at this point that Kamala was smoking the stuff in California while also prosecuting people in California for smoking the stuff.
Tragic mistake om the part of Ohio’s clueless and stupid voters.
Coming to Florida in November. Count on it.
I’ve only seen the admission that she smoked in college, which would have been in the 80s.
If you have additional info.
The post I questioned said Harris carried out a war on blacks and Latinos for following the law at the time and what the alternative should have Ben. To refuse to follow the law?
Part of the ‘New Economy’….
Major New Study Finds that Cannabis Increases Head and Neck Cancer 5-Fold
Reports say 30% of the sales around Cincinnati are from border states.
Outlaw everything that can contribute to cancer. It’s the only thing that can save us.
“Part of the ‘New Economy’….”
State governments could further increase tax revenues by legalizing heroin.
There is no evidence that heroin is a gateway to tobacco or carbonated sodas.
Besides: “it is a free country.”
Cannabis is quasi-legal in almost all states now, under the THCa loophole. THCa is precursor to THC before it is heated above 200 degrees, where it turns into THC. A legality, yes, but under the 2018 farm act, it passes as hemp.
Since there are no restrictions on THCa, as long as it tests at under three percent THC, it’s federally legal, and for sale in various forms in 45 states at the moment. Drop by your local vape shop.
I’m only repeating what I heard from a friend...
“I’ve only seen the admission that she smoked in college “
Well, ok, I guess that’s entirely different from hipocracy, right?!
IDJIT !
Personal attack. Excellent.
It’s also not hipocacy, or hypocrisy even.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply though.
I think it’s mostly voter driven. Legislators won’t touch it.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/?
Back in when We Teenagers (mid 1970's) were saying that if the goobermint entities would legalize Pot and collect the Taxes on the sales they could balance the books. Of course the goobermint idiots were too stupid to understand that simple concept...
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