California Assemblyman on Financial Crises: Legalize it!
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mz. said:
It really isn't, 'spec. It's only $6.25 tax on an eighth, which equates to only a little more than sales tax in California. CA dispensaries aren't charging any sales tax at the moment...or...a 12.5% tax rate....on the most expensive kind of pot currently sold. if the same tax is applied to mexican dirt weed....well, its considerably more.
you cannot tax it so high as to remove the economic viability of it.....otherwise, people will do what they always do...make a cheaper alternative.
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We are all assuming that prices for the good stuff will stay the same as they are on the street now, but if it is legal to grow the prices will change. I think then the taxes really wont seem so high when the price might actually be lower than it is now.
We are all assuming that prices for the good stuff will stay the same as they are on the street now, but if it is legal to grow the prices will change. I think then the taxes really wont seem so high when the price might actually be lower than it is now.
You can grow the best shit for almost nothing.
How you gonna sell or tax it?
At least beer making is complicated and not all that cheap.
WSS
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Its a ridiculous concept anyways to criminilize a supply and demand problem anyways. Tax it and regulate it.
As for Steve's statement of REAL criminals are not going to stop being criminals that is completely true. There is of course the other factor and perfect example.... Alcohol prohibition and the Mafia.
The Mafia had to move to OTHER illegal streams of income because legal taxed alcohol was not worth it anymore. Perfect example of turning street thugs into multi billion dollar empires and bordering countries (Canada) into net exporters of a highly profitable supply and demand based commodity that will never go away.
The more people come to grips that altered states is something some humans will always crave and some will become addicted to maybe they will stop with the RetardED concept to criminalize this very basic problem.
The U.S. generates billions a year in tax revenue for alcohol alone..... it is a huge business for each state. If humans are going to do it anyways we might as well regulate and tax it to bring in positive revenue and cut down on the cost of housing prisoners and prosecuting it.
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Tanks OSUSEV, I surely likes my buzz! Just had a half gallon of Mad dog with a few joints of weed with angel dust mixed in! I'm glad all you folks think it should be legal! Party on!
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Diehard I dont agree with the use of most drugs, hell I dont take aspirin or anything else for that matter I just live with minor discomforts.
This is not my personal opinion of a moral imperative but rather a pragmatic cost analysis of a supply and demand/enforcement issue. We cant stop demand or supply no matter how you legislate it, criminilzing it just enriches the wrong social group and puts an enormous law enforcement(unending/unwinnable) problem. The costs to house and investigate and prosecute criminal legislation is prohibitive and not effective anyways.
IF people are going to use it anyways at least find a way to tax them in order to pay for rehab/admin/reeducation etc facilities to manage the problem.
The current way increases violent crime and cost to enforce something that is impossible to eradicate or control/put a unbearable cost on society the other way is to accept natural human tendancies and monetize enough funds to deal with the problem.
Its not rocket science and we already have U.S. Historical precedence and systems to prove monetizing solutions as well as examples of how criminal enrichment dissapates to nominal levels... Alcohol prohibtion.
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Tanks OSUSEV, I surely likes my buzz! Just had a half gallon of Mad dog with a few joints of weed with angel dust mixed in! I'm glad all you folks think it should be legal! Party on!
Tanks OSUSEV, I surely likes my buzz! Just had a half gallon of Mad dog with a few joints of weed with angel dust mixed in! I'm glad all you folks think it should be legal! Party on!
watch out for Bats
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Making something illegal because a small amount of people will abuse it is ridiculous. Get back to us when there is a case of anybody dying solely due to marijuana use.
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@hiwaygal said:
Or we can let all those federally subsidized "farms" (that don't grow a damn thing) start producing a cash crop.I'm all for the legalization of marijuana for MANY reasons.
Plus... just think of how good its gonna smell driving through farm country with corn on your left and bud on your right...
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