Prop AA: The weed tax

[sniper7]

I'm no talking drug enterprises. I want the individual growers who sell to get the strong hand of the law for tax evasion, attempted distribution to minors. Sure you can toss in racketeering And other charges that fit from Rico if you want. Let them feel the pain.

[def90]

Pot was illegal for the last 40 years. Was crime more rampant then or now that it's legal? The black market will not INCREASE due to taxes, it will only stay the same as it has been for decades and decades. This seems so obvious to me.

The whole argument for legalizing pot is that it will reduce crime and end the gangs hold on drugs.. Legalizing pot and then taxing it so high that people still flock to the black market because it is cheaper will not reduce crime and will not have any effect on gangs. So now we have legalized pot with all of the same crime issues as before, what's the point?

[buffalobo]

The "black market" and the cartels are/will be financing many of the new commercial growing operations.

They have the bases covered both sides of the line.

[Irving]

I'm no talking drug enterprises. I want the individual growers who sell to get the strong hand of the law for tax evasion, attempted distribution to minors. Sure you can toss in racketeering And other charges that fit from Rico if you want. Let them feel the pain.

So you want people charged on groundless counts? That same argument could be made for home brewers as well. You brew beer = you are illegally selling AND selling to minors. Boy, who wouldn't buy that?

[sniper7]

Gotta pay the tax or face the consequences. That is now the law.

I just want to see them suffer Irving. That is their mentality toward us. It is now mutual

[Irving]

I know what you want, but it is misplaced and a modern day witch hunt. The cross section of people who voted against guns is not the same as the cross section who voted for weed. The tax is only for retail sale anyway, so going after people growing is misguided as well. It's like you got rear-ended by a taxi and went and firbombed an airport shuttle maintenance garage. I l'm angry about shitty gjn laws too, but at least point your anger in the right direction.

[sniper7]

Stop making sense Irving. Just let me dream a little!

[Zundfolge]

The cross section of people who voted against guns is not the same as the cross section who voted for weed.

That is the crux of our disagreement.

[Aloha_Shooter]

The cross section of people who voted against guns is not the same as the cross section who voted for weed.

No but an 80+% congruency is close enough that I understand why so many people voted for the tax. Personally, I'd rather put Denver on starvation diet. Voting for AA was like giving Michael Moore a shipping container of Twinkie burgers. I may loathe the SOB and may have absolutely no interest in the product myself but why indulge him like that?

[Zundfolge]

Voting for AA was like giving Michael Moore a shipping container of Twinkie burgers. I may loathe the SOB and may have absolutely no interest in the product myself but why indulge him like that?

'cause you could hasten a severe myocardial infarction followed by assumption of room temperature.