Dr. Paul clarifies marijuana bill on Kudlow—doesn’t “endorse” use

The US Report ^ | June 23, 2011 | Kay Day

[BlazingArizona]

“Will every state also have to have import restrictions of its own on this, if they decide to keep it illegal? Are bags going to need separate state-level inspection and scanning for agricultural products when traveling interstate, like there is in Hawaii? These are also my concerns.”

That’s exactly how it works now in those states with high tobacco taxes.

[OldNewYork]

I can see the similarities you’re drawing, but where in America is it illegal to possess tobacco, not just illegally dodge taxes on it?

[TigersEye]

I see what you mean.

[BlazingArizona]

“I can see the similarities you’re drawing, but where in America is it illegal to possess tobacco, not just illegally dodge taxes on it?”

I actually had New York in mind when I wrote this. Doesn’t the state go to outlandish lengths to collect tobacco taxes online and in other states? California may have its border fruit checks, but New York has what are close to being tobacco customs.

[OldNewYork]

I have to confess ignorance to the extent of that, because I don’t smoke or dip or anything. I have heard of what you’re talking about, how anti-tobacco this state and especially this city is. There are a couple of Indian reservations not too far from the city - the Poospatuck one is I think the closest, but is small: only a few blocks long and a few blocks wide, on Long Island. The other one is bigger: the Shinnecock reservation, close to the Hamptons. There was an uproar about avoiding taxes on cigarettes from those places that made the news, but I haven’t heard much since.

[microgood]

Considering how ‘medical’ marijuana has worked out in the places that have adopted it, I think he should reconsider. It’s gone from growing your own for private use, to buying at a shop, to lollipops, pizzas, brownies containing it for sale. It’s a mockery of the people in those states who naively believed it would be the compassionate thing to vote for.

They made medical marijuana legal in Washington State a long time ago and I have never noticed any effect on anyone/anything here. It is like it never happened.

[OldNewYork]

I haven’t seen it in Washington, but was basing what I wrote on what I’d seen visiting Los Angeles recently and what I’d read about it elsewhere.

[microgood]

I haven’t seen it in Washington, but was basing what I wrote on what I’d seen visiting Los Angeles recently and what I’d read about it elsewhere.

I think it depends on how they go about implementing it, I guess.