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I probably should have said "ignorant" people. I worded that incorrectly and did not mean to imply any amount of formal education.

There are several voter reforms I'd support as long as the outcome is to limit voting to those who have a demonstrable interest in the country's well being and financial soundness - an analogy might be a political equivalent to the "insurable interest" definition of the insurance industry.

We'll need more DUI cops.

If I pay cash for a bottle of gin, it is still taxed.


Travis

gin?

Never figured you as a beefeater type

The other fly in the ointment is that banks won't open accounts for the marijuana stores. The banks would fall prey to the RICO act and other anti-drug and organized crime laws. Without bank accounts the stores do have an all cash business - even paying the employees in cash.

But this and other issues are what other states are closely watching. How does one convert from a formerly illegal business to a legal one? What the the nuts and bolts of it?

Once Colorado and Washington get the details worked out I think we will see a lot of other states legalize it. Whether that is better or worse for society obviously folks will argue about for years to come.

I just don't remember reading about a huge turmoil or fall of society when Prohibition was repealed, and instead see a great decline in the number of people in prison and a drying up of the cash flow fueling corruption from the cop on the beat to Congress. Of course, that corruption money will still flow unabated, it will just have to go through different sources like PACs and other legal institutions for bribery.

Tanqueray.



Dave

Hendrick's gin is God's gin.

You don't really know any women, do you?

You work in a place where women work, but you don't really talk to them or understand anything about their life experiences or their ambitions, or anything at all about the paths they take, and their reasons for taking them.

Pot has been legal in Alaska since 1975, Ravin vs State, and driving with an Alaskan license plate gets the opposite response.

"Why is that guy driving like that ??? Oh, look at his plates he is from Alaska !!!!"

So as a result ... some of the Alaskans I know get about 50 to 100 MPJ ... (miles per joint) ... when traveling outside.

Oh I understand that Travis. You will pay the taxes on the sale. It's the reporting on the merchant's end that is suspect. Cash under the table so to speak.


Clyde

The thing is these Businesses are Still Illegal. According to the Federal Government Marijuana is Illegal in all 57 States.

Banks are aware of this and won't open accounts for an Illegal Marijuana Operation.

So, how can a State generate Tax revenue from an ILLEGAL Business?

Tax evasion has sent a bunch of criminals to prison when they couldn't pin anything else on them.

That's a great question and the answer to that is what the other states are waiting to find out.

God likes cucumber water?

The fall got going with Woodrow Wilson and progressives.

It will not put even a single cop out of work. MJ possession charges have been the equivalent of a parking ticket for decades now.

shortactionsmorker
I totally agree with you, I and wife wanted children to have our values not someone else' values, thus I worked a second job for 6 years. Cheers NC

There's ways around the banking obstacles.

It's a little unprecedented right now. But the CO dirtbags will find ways to close loopholes and explain to the dirtbags in other states how much money is being left on the table, and that will be the end of marijuana being a controlled substance.


Travis

The Liberals will never remove Marijuana from the Controlled Substance list on the Federal level.

They will endorse it's use and "Legalize" it on the State level, but never on the Federal level.

Keeping Marijuana a Controlled Substance makes Every User and everyone in possession a Prohibited Person. By allowing it's use on the State level they are stripping Millions of Americans of their Second Amendment rights without enacting a single piece of legislation and without lifting a finger.