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New era opens in California with first sales of recreational marijuana
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 1st, 2018 | By Jill Tucker and David Downs

Posted on 01/01/2018 4:40:21 PM PST by Mariner

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To: Mariner

...a cashier rang up the cost of three joints, a $45.37 purchase representing one of the first recreational marijuana sales in the state....

Personally, I’m saving that $45.37.


61 posted on 01/01/2018 6:13:28 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Mariner

Those are nice, fat pre-rolls at $12 a pop. Probably with some kif or hash oil. The rest is the tax.


62 posted on 01/01/2018 6:17:05 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Just exactly the way it happened with repeal of prohibition, right?
The great depression happened during the prohibition era.
Billions of dollars and untold lives have been wasted in the war on pot, to little effect beyond expanding government police powers.
These are facts. Make of them what you will.


63 posted on 01/01/2018 6:19:05 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: Mariner

Nanny liberals going for the worst parts of two worlds.


64 posted on 01/01/2018 6:21:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Maybe something will go right. Like long overdue self discovery.


65 posted on 01/01/2018 6:22:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: gundog

Yep, and AZ will be next.


66 posted on 01/01/2018 6:38:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Ken Kesey blew through there 50 years ago with the Acid Tests. California will change very little because of this. Just another pothole on the road to ruin.


67 posted on 01/01/2018 6:41:44 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Mariner

I have no idea of the conversion factor but at the price quoted in the article, people are going to be stealing plants out of gardens.


68 posted on 01/01/2018 6:44:05 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Mariner

Not well


69 posted on 01/01/2018 6:45:06 PM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: gundog

This is the result of Soros spending millions pushing pot.

He’s already moved on to heroin in Seattle, Washington.


70 posted on 01/01/2018 6:54:24 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Hugh the Scot
Billions of dollars and untold lives have been wasted in the war on pot, to little effect beyond expanding government police powers.

Another effect has been the enrichment of violent criminals.

71 posted on 01/01/2018 7:03:12 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: gundog

LOL
What the hell is the Scrooge McDuck?


72 posted on 01/01/2018 7:03:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: gundog

“The west is gonna be the weed basket of the rest of the country until it goes national.”

Like I said in my opening comment: Nothing changes. Or will change.


73 posted on 01/01/2018 7:08:00 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I know, right? Just another excuse to tax.


74 posted on 01/01/2018 7:35:07 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Mariner

Want to get rid of drugs?
Let the government run it, they’ll f@$€ it up in a year.
At this rate cocaine is gonna be cheaper than grass.
Next thing you know we’ll have a underground black market.


75 posted on 01/01/2018 7:40:55 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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‘Nothing changes. Or will change.’ That would be the best case scenario. Those ‘groups’ who utilized MJ sales to finance their ‘operations’ will now require a different revenue source. Let’s hope that source will be as ‘benign’ (violence level) as their former income endeavor......


76 posted on 01/01/2018 7:58:46 PM PST by yadent
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Nothing changed today, there was already de-facto legalization for years. “Medical marijuana” was a joke, anyone with $19 and an iPhone could get a medical marijuana ID card and buy all the weed they wanted (not taxed either). So basically this proposition was completely symbolic, everyone who wanted to smoke weed years ago was smoking years ago.


77 posted on 01/01/2018 8:18:41 PM PST by CaliGangsta
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To: DoughtyOne; Mariner

I’ve been offered it free by the fistful over the past year and seen more growing than I ever imagined back in high school, the state trying to manage 3 digit taxes off of it is going to be a zoo...


78 posted on 01/01/2018 8:35:08 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: madprof98

Try to drop me a freepmail before that goes off...

Douche.


79 posted on 01/01/2018 8:37:53 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Mariner
Oh, and they have already succeeded. From an economic point of view they are the most successful state in the union.

A Consequence of Geography. Any group of people would be successful if they had California's geography.

80 posted on 01/01/2018 8:46:16 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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