Here is some Nice Time for your Friday afternoon! The city of Aurora, Colorado, is using 1.5 million of the dollars it raised by legalizing and taxing the pot to help the homeless! Yaaaaaay! The plan has been in the works for some time, but decisions on where the money will go were made at a recent City Council Meeting. The Council agreed to award $220,000 to the Colfax Community Network, a non-profit that offers support to families living in motels, to provide several vans to Comitis Crisis Center and Aurora Mental Health for homeless outreach programs, and to make the city's part-time Aurora Housing Authority's part-time land lord position a full-time position in order to help more homeless people get housing.
There are states that will expunge your criminal record, if what you were convicted of is no longer a crime. I don't know if CO is one of those states.
That makes perfect sense. If alcohol had a medical use, you'd be able to buy it tax-free with an Rx. As a chemical solvent, pure ethanol is tax-free to academic research labs, and carries only regular sales tax when commercial labs buy it. (You do have to police it a bit: a 5-gallon can of what is effectively 200-proof top-shelf vodka is going to tempt people.)
More like 30 billion pieces, Gov., but hey - it's a classic Texas bullshit soundbite. We all know you'll fuck over the public if it puts money in YOUR pockets.
Oh bullshit. You want to complain about the stupidity of US drug laws historically? Knock yourself out- I doubt you'll get any argument here. But the idea that the US finally taking steps towards sanity in that regard is somehow a bad thing is where you go right off the rails. WTF monoculture agriculture has to do with this is beyond me. The MJ trade will likely stay a relatively small, boutique industry like it is, it's not corn or soybeans, dude. Think artisanal craft beers. And it isn't MJ sales here that kill Mexican farmers, it's drug lords there with the acquiescence of corrupt Mexican politicians. There was room to blame the US back when they fought that war on drugs and drove the trade underground where the violence and criminality percolate up, but the idea that legalizing MJ causes people to die is pure idiocy.
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It's bogart-proof!
There are states that will expunge your criminal record, if what you were convicted of is no longer a crime. I don't know if CO is one of those states.
There should be no taxes on prescription medications, in any state. That needs to be fixed.
OK, that explains a lot of the comments here...
Obama should be there to cut the ribbon - just to fuck with the patriot preppers' heads.
That makes perfect sense. If alcohol had a medical use, you'd be able to buy it tax-free with an Rx. As a chemical solvent, pure ethanol is tax-free to academic research labs, and carries only regular sales tax when commercial labs buy it. (You do have to police it a bit: a 5-gallon can of what is effectively 200-proof top-shelf vodka is going to tempt people.)
Keeps 'em off the voting rolls, too - which is one reason Rethuglicans don't want to decriminalize anything that incarcerates the blahs.
100% agree, but I also don't mind paying sales tax, just not ADDED taxes because it makes you feel better
More like 30 billion pieces, Gov., but hey - it's a classic Texas bullshit soundbite. We all know you'll fuck over the public if it puts money in YOUR pockets.
Relax - the Gulf will come for them.
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Bottle of scotch, pack of ciggies - all the same thing: a "sin tax" that's easy to get past most politicians.
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Oh bullshit. You want to complain about the stupidity of US drug laws historically? Knock yourself out- I doubt you'll get any argument here. But the idea that the US finally taking steps towards sanity in that regard is somehow a bad thing is where you go right off the rails. WTF monoculture agriculture has to do with this is beyond me. The MJ trade will likely stay a relatively small, boutique industry like it is, it's not corn or soybeans, dude. Think artisanal craft beers. And it isn't MJ sales here that kill Mexican farmers, it's drug lords there with the acquiescence of corrupt Mexican politicians. There was room to blame the US back when they fought that war on drugs and drove the trade underground where the violence and criminality percolate up, but the idea that legalizing MJ causes people to die is pure idiocy.
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