New at MPP TV: Tax & Regulate Marijuana
MPP-TV just released this excellent video highlighting the need to tax and regulate marijuana. This piece is especially relevant now that California is considering groundbreaking reform legislation that has triggered a national discussion about the wisdom of marijuana prohibition.
Tagged with: California and legalization and marijuana and Prohibition and Tax and Regulate by the author
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So, Mr. Mark Emery, was right, the more we grow marijuana plants on a grand scale, the better for our fight to end prohibition. “Don’t through your seeds away!” Remember Johnny Apple Seed? Don’t just laugh, drop your starter plants in your favorite location to make a statement America.
Typo, through should be throw.
Well done. It addressed several good points about legalization. There’s also the benefit of eliminating a lot of the Mexican drug cartel violence also.
A serious thought to ending prohibtion is over coming American Government being hooked on the profits from marijuana convictions and private industry’s hunger for getting a large part of those associated funds.
When we say legalize marijuana, we mean to put a lot of people out of work, especially government workers. What are some new jobs that will be created by legalizing marijuana?
Please remember also its about personal rights, the right to choose what you put in your body,Good Or Bad. These jobs that would be lost could be redirected toward border enforcement, solving crime instead of creating it (Their brand of job security). How many teachers could we hire,or schools that could be funded, build new treatment facilities. I think prohibition has doomed its self because it has touched to many areas of our lives. The more these areas are recognized the more opponets will think.
Do you plan to keep your gun rights intact? This war at our border with mexico has given opponets of gun rights the tool they need to try and remove those rights. If 60% of the drugs coming over the border is MJ ,then prohibition needs removed Not our gun rights . Just another thought for all of ya to use in this fight.
Now, let’s see what Obama has to say… Not good for the economy?!
El Chapo may says differently.
To Tenn Activist:
Hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created by full legalisation. Construction jobs (building dispensaries), budtender jobs, growers, etc.
Thanx Mark (#8)
Visit the HIA online, Hemp Industries Association. I think you’ll be impressed. Farmers are waiting for marijuana reform for they’re industry too, the hemp industry doesn’t grow pot to get high with but they’re market is going to take over the wood industry and the EPA concerns aren’t near a bad with hemp production as wood. Tree huggers should love this market!
A key question is whether we continue a system in which all of the money flows to criminals and guns, or do legalize and tax marijuana so the money can flow to the public treasury and rebuilding America.
Support a personal use and cultivation permit: $100 for twelve plants. Let’s let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own backyards and put the criminal drug lords out of business.
As for Medicinal Marijuana, if the laws are bogus and I’m faced with dying or using hemp oil for the cure. What do you think I’m going to do? I refuse to dye without trying to save my life with marijuana medicines.
Take a close look at the high profile case of Senator Kennedy with cancer. This is exactly what I’m waiting to see is someone like Kennedy being healed to full recovery from hemp oil and other marijuana medicines. If you don’t want to wait for high profile case just visit Phoenix Tears web site, http://www.phoenixtears.ca/, owned by Engineer Rick Simpson of Nova Scotia Canada.
I don’t require proof to try the medicine, I have to be desperate enough to think that it might work for all of us the same way that it’s worked for thousands of patients all over the world for the past 8000 years.
did I hear correctly that an excise tax of $50.00 per ounces? Is this what we can expect from legalized marijuana, tax it until it becomes even more expensive then it currently is on the black market? $50.00 an ounce is a heck of a lot of tax to pay to Uncle Sam. I’m not for that at all.
The $50/oz figure is from the excise tax proposed in California’s AB 390.
The retail price of marijuana would significantly decrease once the risks associated with prohibition are no longer factors. Some economic predictions are on the order of a 50% reduction. So even with the $50 tax, the price would still be less than the black market price.
Personal Use and Cultivation Permit
12 plants
$100 per year
Split between the Fed and the participating States
There is no way a plain and simple read of the Constitution supports marijuana prohibition. The Supreme Court should have ruled against this war on (some) drug users packaged as a war on drugs long ago. It isn’t drugs that are getting their rights violated. This isn’t a war on drugs it’s a war on a certain class of people. The Supreme Court was and still is infected with the virus of Puritanism – which demands that all pleasure is sinful and all sin must be punished.
Yes marijuana should be legalized and taxed modestly.
I agree with A Simple Plan (above) except $50 would be more reasonable.
How about a cannabis tax stamp $50 per year, you buy them at a liquor store. No paperwork, no filing anything.
In case folks are wondering how the California legislation compares to the “simple plan” above…
AB 390 allows adults to cultivate up to 10 plants for personal use without any permits or taxes. The licensing and excise taxes would apply to commercial businesses who sell marijuana to adults.
So, the “simple plan” would work under AB 390 — just two less plants per adult but no $100 fee.
Asseblyman Chuck DeVore from Orange County Ca. just responded to my letter asking him to support AB390. He responded with the typical Cannabis drug warrior foolishness. I would like to publish his letter and my response. We must vote people like him out of office!!
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