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Washington Pot Stores Open, But Some Activists Aren't Celebrating
USNews ^ | 0708/2014 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 07/09/2014 12:54:00 PM PDT by Rusty0604

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LOL I guess the cartels won't be going out of business in Washington.

If only this guy could take his newfound appreciation of capitalism and 1), apply the concept to all activities and 2)share his knowledge with all the lefties.

1 posted on 07/09/2014 12:54:00 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

The plan was always to buy a little bit from the legal shop and then keep the receipt to cover for the cheaper stuff they get from their old dealers. Washington could have one legal shop. They’re only worried about the sales receipt.


2 posted on 07/09/2014 12:57:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Rusty0604

When it comes to getting high,
leftists suddenly understand
market forces.

Don’t harsh on mellow, man!


3 posted on 07/09/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: Rusty0604

It’s the same in Colorado. But the cartels are getting business mainly from the state! Thousands of small grows have sprung up in basements and sheds and they produce much better product than the mass growers (some of which are cartel owned) who produce for the stores.

The small growers have lower prices too (no tax). People look upon the retail stores like a 7-11, just grab a little something when you get caught short.

Govt never changes, and never solves problems. It just increases in size and power. People work around it as best they can.


4 posted on 07/09/2014 1:02:54 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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When NY imposed huge taxes on tobacco, the black market came in. If cigarettes didn’t have the tax stamp on them people could get into trouble. I guess that wouldn’t work with MJ since it won’t be sold in packs.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 1:03:12 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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So much for the talk of “tax the hell out of it”.

Send the revenuers in to get their share like they do when people make moonshine...


6 posted on 07/09/2014 1:05:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: SaxxonWoods

I guess that frees up the Mexican cartels to ship over more heroin. Now they don’t even have to worry much about the border patrol catching them as they are too busy babysitting.


7 posted on 07/09/2014 1:05:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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I suspect his newfound insight is situational.


8 posted on 07/09/2014 1:06:47 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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I guess that frees up the Mexican cartels to ship over more heroin. Now they don’t even have to worry much about the border patrol catching them as they are too busy babysitting.

Kids today are so retro, the love their Mexican cokes.


9 posted on 07/09/2014 1:08:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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I suspect you are correct.


10 posted on 07/09/2014 1:14:55 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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Kids today are so retro, the love their Mexican cokes.
We buy the Mexican bottled coca cola at our local Korean country store and they are way better than the corn syrup yankee ones. They taste like a coke should.
11 posted on 07/09/2014 1:15:38 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Fine by me. The point as a smoker is that I won’t go to jail. The rest of it I don’t care about.


12 posted on 07/09/2014 1:41:38 PM PDT by Wolfie
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LOL. I was gonna say there may be a good side to this. All these libturd potheads will learn some basic Econ.


13 posted on 07/09/2014 1:52:36 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Tommy Chong owns a grow shop in Pueblo, Colorado.


14 posted on 07/09/2014 2:13:43 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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“Send the revenuers in to get their share like they do when people make moonshine...”

Many states allow people to distill a limited quantity of spirits without paying any taxes for personal consumption. Are you opposed to that freedom?


15 posted on 07/11/2014 12:05:09 AM PDT by FBD
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We buy the Mexican bottled coca cola

Does it have the worm in the bottom of the bottle?

16 posted on 07/11/2014 12:20:48 AM PDT by Octar
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To: Rusty0604

One of the points pot addicts made for legalization was that the government could regulate and tax it. Now they are bitching about it.


17 posted on 07/11/2014 12:26:16 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Sounded good when they were stoned.


18 posted on 07/11/2014 1:06:48 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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“We buy the Mexican bottled coca cola at our local Korean country store”

In the midwest these Cokes are labelled “kosher”. The have sugar instead of corn syrup- and yes they are much tastier than there mainstream cousins


19 posted on 07/11/2014 1:30:32 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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One of the points pot addicts made for legalization

Not all legalization supporters are even pot users, much less pot addicts. (I'll take this opportunity to mention that pot is less addictive than alcohol.)

was that the government could regulate and tax it. Now they are bitching about it.

Even if it was the same people in both cases (for which there is no evidence on the table) they may simply have overlooked the possibility that Washington would OVERtax and OVERregulate.

20 posted on 07/11/2014 6:12:56 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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