colorado plans to make $100M next year

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:12 pm

Taxing bud. Just imagine how that cash could be spent on shit like, I don't know, funding operations against cartels while simultaneously breaking the monopoly on the sale of their most popular item. Nah, makes too much sense.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:26 pm

Too bad the government won't be able to deposit those taxes into their governmental bank accounts. Are they going to just keep piles of cash in city hall?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:27 pm

TPRJones wrote:Too bad the government won't be able to deposit those taxes into their governmental bank accounts. Are they going to just keep piles of cash in city hall?

One assumes they can pay their workers in cash.

Post by **Vince** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 7:40 pm

I really don't have strong feelings one way or the other about the legal weed in CO (or elsewhere). One thing I am curious to see will be the unintended consequences. What are all the illegal dealers going to do now? They aren't likely going to simply give up the business and start work at ad agencies or something. What illegal thing will they start peddling now?

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:19 pm

I would guess that some went legit, some sell other drugs instead, some just quit, some are working out the best way to export CO weed to other states, and some moved out-of-state entirely.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:37 pm

TPRJones wrote:I would guess that some went legit, some sell other drugs instead, some just quit, some are working out the best way to export CO weed to other states, and some moved out-of-state entirely.

After Prohibition stopped, the Kennedy family went into politics.

Post by **Vince** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:11 pm

Malcolm wrote:After Prohibition stopped, the Kennedy family went into politics.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:33 pm

Even Girl Scouts are cashing in.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 2:11 pm

1 year later, things going fine except for a couple asshole states around them. That link has two advocates for states' rights arguing that the state of Colorado shouldn't have the right to legalize bud.

Bruning has fought Obamacare with the fanaticism of a zealot, arguing in a legal challenge that the law tramped upon states’ rights. As attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt has led the next major challenge to the act, insisting that the federal government must respect states’ decisions not to set up their own exchanges and to deny their citizens cheap access to good insurance. Both men believe their states have a right to control their own health insurance systems.

But when another state decides to experiment with a new drug policy, Bruning and Pruitt’s support for state sovereignty dries up. They are arguing that Congress’s prohibition against marijuana should force every state to prohibit it as well.

I'm sure they have nothing but the safety of their constituents in mind.

These attorneys general aren’t opposed to all intoxicants. Their position on marijuana might have something to do with the fact that both Bruning and Pruitt have received significant campaign contributions from alcohol industries.

I'd waiting to hear an argument that has any semblance of sanity which explains why weed is illegal but nicotine and booze are a-ok.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:10 pm

Feds still being assholes.

But because legalization remains illegal on the federal level, most major banks are reluctant to handle the money marijuana dispensaries bring in and businesses are unable to use credit or debit cards.

The manager of 3D Cannabis Centre says being robbed is his biggest fear and he worries about it daily.

The US gov't: encouraging small biz.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:05 pm

Colorado made enough selling drugs to give everyone a small tax refund.

The state estimates it will bring in about $50 million in taxes after the first year of legal marijuana sales. Some of the money will go to schools. But because the pot money will put Colorado over that Tax Payer Bill of Rights threshold, the governor’s office is now predicting refunds could be up to $30.5 million — around $7.63 per adult in Colorado

But wait, there's more.

But some state Republicans and Democrats are balking at the idea of returning pot tax revenue, and are crossing party lines to work out a plan to keep the revenue, according to the AP. It would likely take voters to decide by casting ballots on the issue to exempt marijuana taxes from the Tax Payer Bill of Rights.

Hey, it's Congress trying to pass legislation to take more of your money. Shocking.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:43 pm

Thieves

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:52 pm

Assholes are pleading their conscience.

Twelve sheriffs from three states said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Colorado's law legalizing marijuana for recreational use creates a "crisis of conscience" by forcing them to uphold state law when their oath of office also includes a promise to uphold the federal Constitution.

Go fuck yourselves, each and every one. Your conscience doesn't keep you from applying batshit insane laws that have nothing to do with public safety in arbitrary ways against people without the cash to defend themselves. Fucking pricks.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:14 pm

Washington nets $65M in bonus income because that state doesn't have its head up its own asshole unlike other states run by retarded mongoloids, e.g. Iowa.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:48 am

Ohio next to vote.

Sure hope you Ohio people vote for it.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:12 am

TheCatt wrote:Ohio next to vote.

Sure hope you Ohio people vote for it.

Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, and that creates problems even in states where it's legal. For instance, marijuana businesses face challenges with banking. Financial institutions, which are regulated by the federal government, tend to shun dispensaries.

There are also issues with advertising. Neos, a vaporizer company, got its TV ad blocked in Colorado because the federal government regulates the airwaves.

Two-faced fed pricks.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:18 am

I will, but I expect my shitlord governor to do something to block it. Fuck you, Kasich.

Alhazad · Post by **Alhazad** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:56 pm

Maybe I should vote this year.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:42 am

Possession of bud is legal in North Korea. Do you want to have a bigger stick up your ass than them? Just sayin'.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:56 pm

Legal to sell but not advertise.

The byzantine and conflicting regulations illustrated by the disparate treatment of the two cannabis-themed ads merely underscores the necessity of educational events like the OMMBC; yet if the groundbreaking ad airing tonight portends a growing acceptance of mainstream media to endorse the option which is safer than alcohol (which, after all, network television has rarely hesitated to endorse)

Hypocritical assholes.