This is going to raise a heck of a lot more problems than revenue for the politicians. But hey! Potheads come up with a lot of ‘good ideas’.
Oh yea - my young teenagers now know what Pot smells like. If they weren't sure before - they sure as hell know now.
But recent stories about the tax windfall being enjoyed by the state government of Colorado makes me think that a lot of states are going to push ahead.
Oh, for the good old days before governors had conferences. They worried about their own state and nothing else.
Well less than a hundred years ago, weed had not yet been made illegal at the federal level by the bastardization of the interstate commerce clause, which so many people here support, even if they are afraid to do it openly. Because to do so exposes them to the so many other abuses of the same clause. And they’re embarrassed by cognitive dissonance.
It’s just so bizarre to me that some FReepers consider substances being illegal to be the natural state of things, and that one must produce arguments to support them not being illegal. How do you not see the corollary to other actions currently prohibited by the federal government? Choosing to pay for your own medical care out of pocket, for example, without being fined.
So now the landscape has changed. Follow your doctors advice. Except under obamacare you have no doctor. So follow your own advice...nah... There is a federal mandate. Follow their advice... nah...tell the feds all your “troubles” of addiction and get a free pass to healthcare under the disability act but try and get disability from the feds if you ARE disabled...nah
Urban Pacification.
I am sure the more nutty folks thought about putting something in the water supply to make the population passive and easy to manipulate.
They didn’t have to.