the weed, thread

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

Short of federal legalization, would be nice for the Biden Admin to propose some new rules regarding security clearances so they don't blacklist anyone who admits to regular MJ usage. Stone cold drunks can get a clearance with flying colors but if you, heaven forbid, admit to using MJ, you don't have a prayer.

Wow, good thing the federal government flat out rejects current MJ users for secret and top secret clearances. We can't trust those untrustworthy dope smokers, they can't be trusted with our nation's most important secrets.

Oh, wait............

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

In tragic news

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/2023/04/19/statewide-marijuana-flower-shortage-impacts-420-deals/70123531007/

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

Tons of free weed being given away on U St. The shops are competing with each other.

[hutch]

Tons of free weed being given away on U St. The shops are competing with each other.

Wow life just keeps getting better for potheads!!

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

In the first month… almost 90 million in sales (over 5 million in tax revenue) in the first month of legalization in MD

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/sales-of-recreational-marijuana-exceed-expectations-in-first-month-of-legalization-in-maryland/3398444/


I hope the va legislature takes this into account when January rolls around this year

Leaving an insane amount of tax revenue on the table by not figuring out how to do sales,  md did it in 82 days! (Jez been over a decade in dc)

[hutch]

Yeah not convinced tax revenues is a good reason to legalize.

That’s how people justify the lotteries which are very regressive and in my opinion immoral. Same with all the casinos.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

Yeah not convinced tax revenues is a good reason to legalize.

That’s how people justify the lotteries which are very regressive and in my opinion immoral. Same with all the casinos.

You lost, get over it.

[nkotb]

The only valid reason for legalizing weed is that it's cool

[hutch]

I am always in favor of legalization but the argument that it increases tax revenue, while effective politically, just doesn’t cut it with me.

[Yada]

In the first month… almost 90 million in sales (over 5 million in tax revenue) in the first month of legalization in MD

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/sales-of-recreational-marijuana-exceed-expectations-in-first-month-of-legalization-in-maryland/3398444/


I hope the va legislature takes this into account when January rolls around this year

Leaving an insane amount of tax revenue on the table by not figuring out how to do sales,  md did it in 82 days! (Jez been over a decade in dc)

Va... what a terrible state.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

I am always in favor of legalization but the argument that it increases tax revenue, while effective politically, just doesn’t cut it with me.

Are you arguing that MJ legalization doesn't result in increased tax revenue? That wouldn't make any sense.

[hutch]

No. I am saying it’s not a good reason to legalize marijuana.

Marijuana should be legal because it’s not that bad for you not because governments can make money from it.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Marijuana should be legal because it’s not that bad for you not because governments can make money from it.

I'm in total agreement

But I like to share the tax revenue info, as all that revenue was going into the black market (I know I'm a racist)
just in MD close to 1 Billion every year to an economy that was not exactly above recrimination
it's funding all sorts of other illegal enterprises....only because the gov't made it illegal to posses, sell and consume

People want real legit jobs and a taxable revenue stream...well god dammed if I we didn't just discover a massive untapped stream

It can support local businesses, and farmers, and create local jobs that aren't some big box retailer (where most of the revenue goes somewhere else)...heck even boosts girl scout cookie sales.


Yes...this is counter to: It should just be legal, it's just a plant. 

But it's the, "I had no idea there would be that many ancillary benefits to someone smoking a joint."
People were already doing it, so why not create a legit source for jobs and tax revenue...and keep it out of the black market

Va... what a terrible state.

for the record, we had legal adult recreation consumption and possession 2 years before MD.  But the f'n republudicks made sales such a clusterfuck, who knows when they will get their heads out of their asses.   I'm sure it will start to become an issue when people bring up that their next-door neighbor cash a 5 million a month in tax revenue and can say they are creating new jobs

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

But the f'n republudicks made sales such a clusterfuck, who knows when they will get their heads out of their asses.   

No, the Democrats, who passed marijuana legalization and the path to recreational sales while holding the House of Delegates, State Assembly, AG, and Governor's office made this a clusterfuck by deciding they'd all like to get home to their districts a day or two earlier and writing a "details to come later and require ratification next year or else hit stop on a consumer marketplace" provision into it instead of doing the work knowing full-well elections were around the corner and it was more than likely -- even if you didn't see the executive office loses coming -- that the HoD was going to swing back to the GOP.

You don't get to not provide someone CPR then blame the EMTs who show up 10 minutes later for not doing enough.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Don't use facts to fuck with my imagined narrative!