Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
Ronin, if AA didn't pass, weed would still be taxed and regulated, it just wouldn't have an additional 15% tax arbitrarily added to the base tax. Don't compare to gas, tobacco, and alcohol. The government flat out steals monry from the consumers on gasoline. Tobacco and alcohol are already taxed too high on their own. They are not a fitting example, and certainly not justification for what AA called for.
And the rate on weed is? over and above the normal sales tax. I honestly do not know but if it has no additional tax then it needed it. 15% is chump change compared to the $1 a pack Colorado levied a few years ago on cigarettes. They claimed that it would drastically reduce smoking but it did not and in all honesty they do not want us to kill the cash cow.

I can't smoke weed even under the MMJ because I work for the fed. Too old to do so now anyway but just like cigs it is a bad thing. Any smoke inhaled is a bad thing to the body. So after years of being victimized/marginalized because I am a nasty, bad smoker that make all the mothers hide there children and the butt of jokes by the younger subjects we make pot legal and the crowd goes wild. Guess what? What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Still think they should make it all legal. but then I got my hand slapped by a judge 37 years ago for saying that.

I still don't understand what all the stink is since when I was a teenager and where I grew up it was only a traffic ticket for under an OZ back then.

Just my take on it..