Posted on 05/29/2016 1:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah the author talks about it like a new silicon valley just opened up the spouts off about chump change. Aurora is building a freeway overpass with the money? How much you want to bet the freeway overpass costs them 5 times the amount the author listed and the city basically lied to the taxpayers that the pot revenue would pay for it. What government project doesn't have cost overruns.
Look I'm all for the legalization of marijuana but if you want to sell me on the money it brings in, it would have to account for half the state budget before I thought you had an argument.
Yeah. One. The potheads need to lighten up. If they love paying taxes so damn much, why don’t they get jobs.
Soros stooge Justin Gardner goes through the motions for his master.
I conducted lots of urinalysis lockdowns in the Army, sat on admin separation boards for those who popped hot, and p**d in the bottle more times than I can remember.
Alcohol is eliminated from the body within 72 hours & occurs naturally; it’s water soluble. Consuming alcohol is not illegal, the abuse of it is.
THC is foreign to the body, fat soluble and embeds in fatty tissue for up to 30 days. Major difference in terms of exposure, effects, and detectability.
“Alcohol is a drug!!” is a common saying among pot users from wayback. We’re not even on the subject of pot legalization and increase in crime where it is.
The two are not the same and are not equivalent.
Drugs to pay for old people debt on the back of young addicts.
And don’t forget filling those all important mental hospital beds where volunteers can “help” the patients vote Democrat.
Regardless of the source of revenue, governments tend to spend about $1.30 per each $1 collected. That’s leaving out the unfunded pension and lifetime medical liability for every employee hired with these “windfall” revenues.
Why would libertarians want government to have more money, more employees, more power?
It’s never enough. Taxes will continue to rise
Why, again, is hemp production illegal?
“We’re not even on the subject of pot legalization and increase in crime where it is.”
Please provide a link or post documentation showing an increase in crime in my metro area, Tri-Cities, WA, since marijuana was legalized.
Also interested in research showing harmful effects of small or moderate amounts of THC in adipose tissue consistent with occasional use.
Condescend much? You should try some weed - it might improve your personality.
I don’t know but I’ve found CBD derived from hemp to be medically useful. I use that product although pot is legal here, for no particular reason other than I could mail order it.
Industrial hemp has incredibly uses and should be absolutely legal to grow. Totally different from regular high THC pot. As everyone knows.
Actually the dope growers around here don’t want industrial hemp grown since they’re afraid the pollen will mix with their Dayglo Orange or Purple Frizz and render it less dope-ifying.
The whole plant is useful for something. Almost nothing goes to waste.
Want to make a Lib’s head explode? Suggest using hemp rope to hang prisoners.
High THC pot makes a lot of people termporarly nutz, and some permanently. Since it’s legal to grow here now, crime and traffic accidents way up. Doper head people can’t think straight. People from other states are coming here and snapping up property so than can grow and get rich quick, so even rents are too high for a lot of local people. A while ago a hash oil place exploded and one guy got 3rd degree burns, I think he died. There are some kinds of permits or regulations required, especially regarding water use, but no one cares or follows them.
Libertarians just care about the dope they can smoke and sell.
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