“regulating and taxing”
to make sure his friends in the drug cartels still have room to make a few bucks.
I am in upstate New York. New York recently legalized recreational marijunia.
If you want to grow weed in New York, you have to get a liscense. They have a limited amount of liscenses, and they are only giving them out to minority owners and people who have already been convicted of marijunia charges.
Additionally, you have to pay five thousand dollars (non refundable) just to APPLY to get a liscense (which you can’t get if you are a white man), and if you do get a liscense, it is 140,000.00 annually to maintain it.
Of all these taxes, 20% goes towards “minority communities”, so you are literally paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes every year that are probably going to benefit areas that are completely different from the areas that you live in/do business in.
I’m not here to say smoking weed is good or bad, but I would like to point out that if you are in New York State and you are a white male, it is pretty much legally impossible to do so due to the discrimination they are writing into the laws, and because it’s “pot” no one seems to be taking notice.