Legalizing Drugs Puts Drug Dealers Out Of Business

[Votto]

Already happened in Colorado years ago....I always told the "legalize and tax it" dimwits this would happen, but they were too baked to make the connection.

"Legalize and let people do what they want" is more the route to go....Taxing something that people can grow in their closet is dopey.

They did it, it failed, and then they double down on failure

That is what Leftists do as the same thing happened with Marxism over the years.

They just continue to invest in known failure.

 

[Blaster]

You can thank democrats for that.

They won't let the free market dictate price, instead every year they tax it more and more driving up the cost at shops. Democrats have a golden goose and just like with gas taxes out here they have a way to infinite glitch money out of citizens

Very true, legalizing drugs is just a way for the government to get more tax revenue.

 

[Oddball]

Very true, legalizing drugs is just a way for the government to get more tax revenue.

Well, it's a scam whereby they try to get more revenue, but fail because they can't beat the price of the dealer in the trailer park.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

Very true, legalizing drugs is just a way for the government to get more tax revenue.

This should be very insightful if you're interested. They put a 15% excise tax right off the bat

Tax Guide for Cannabis Businesses

www.cdtfa.ca.gov

 

[Rust_Cohle]

Well, it's a scam whereby they try to get more revenue, but fail because they can't beat the price of the dealer in the trailer park.

Bingo! Why get taxed to oblivion in the shops when Joe Smokey grows his own and can beat that price easy

 

[Blaster]

We are a country plagued with drug, alcohol, gambling and sex addiction.

 

[Rust_Cohle]

We are a country plagued with drug, alcohol, gambling and sex addiction.

And phone addiction. I don't remember people being as dumbed down in the 80s and 90s as they are now thanks to iPhones in every hand

 

[Polishprince]

Well, it's a scam whereby they try to get more revenue, but fail because they can't beat the price of the dealer in the trailer park.

The other point is that the pusher in the trailer park already has the business of the local pot heads, and has presumably built up good will and may even allow sales on credit for someone short of cash and really jonesiing to get loaded.

How can a licensed store compete with this, especially if they aren't giving people a huge break on the prices.

 

[occupied]

Decriminalize it instead.

That would be preferable to this over-regulated bullshit that mostly only conservatives want. I have heard about street pot getting punched up with other drugs though. That's a valid argument for some sort of regulation on production. I'd pay extra to be sure what I just bought is unadulterated.

 

[Blaster]

And phone addiction. I don't remember people being as dumbed down in the 80s and 90s as they are now thanks to iPhones in every hand

I am guilty of this.

 

[Oddball]

That would be preferable to this over-regulated bullshit that mostly only conservatives want.

This is all happening in democrat-run states, fool.

 

[Votto]

Very true, legalizing drugs is just a way for the government to get more tax revenue.

This is what happened with alcohol.

Before they created a Federal Income tax amendment, the Supreme Court struck down a federal income tax as unconstitutional. Undaunted, Progressives simply added it to the Constitution. But it was not that easy, there was opposition to it. So the Progressives teamed up with the Evangelicals as the Evangelicals made a deal with the devil. Progressives knew that the Evangelicals were concerned about the carnage of alcoholism during that time, it was truly awful, so they told them that if they would support a Federal Income tax amendment, they would support banning alcohol. But they said first, we must get the revenue continuing into the federal government since much of that revenue came from taxes on alcohol. So the Evangelicals agreed as they first passed the Federal Income tax amendment, and then Prohibition. But the Progressives were not serious about Prohibition, as lawmakers would have bootleggers come to the Capital itself to sell them alcohol. Sure, they did a few busts to make it look like they were trying, but they had no intention of it working. So after a few years, the Progressives threw up their hands and said, Prohibition has failed!!

They then repealed Prohibition, like they wanted to all along, and resumed the government being funded by taxes on alcohol. Not only that, the state began their own liquor stores to sell it directly to the populace.

Progressives essentially doubled their taxes with both sources of revenue of taxes on alcohol and the federal income tax, which was the plan all along.

And today, alcohol kills more people than any other drug. It's not even close.

That is the power of legalizing a drug. It lowers the guard of the populace as they assume it is legal, so it must be safe.

Problem is, they assume the government it not there to rob and murder them.

 

[Independent thinker]

You can thank democrats for that.

They won't let the free market dictate price, instead every year they tax it more and more driving up the cost at shops. Democrats have a golden goose and just like with gas taxes out here they have a way to infinite glitch money out of citizens

Yeah, it's blatant hypocrisy how California attacks the oil industry regarding profits, referring to it as price gouging while at the very same time California gouges the shit out of it's citizens with gasoline taxes.

 

[Blaster]

That would be preferable to this over-regulated bullshit that mostly only conservatives want.

Actually it is liberals that want more regulation.

 

[martybegan]

NOT

Wasn't that the argument? Legalize drugs and the unlawful dealers will go belly up? California has proven otherwise. Of course who would have ever thought that legalizing drugs and putting huge taxes on them would lead to the continuation of the illegal drug market because people could buy them illegally for cheaper than buying them legally?

California's cannabis black market thrives despite legalization

Omar Buddakey emerges from a nondescript building in Los Angeles with a joint in his hand.Buddakey's working-class neighborhood in east Los Angeles is teeming with stores like this one, many marked by a green cross.

news.yahoo.com

It's because they replaced one type of black market with another. They went from a black market that provides an illegal good at a premium to a black market that replaced a legal good at a discount.

It's due to the onerous taxes, fees and other costs placed on the legal growers, distributors, and sellers.

 

[DudleySmith]

Already happened in Colorado years ago....I always told the "legalize and tax it" dimwits this would happen, but they were too baked to make the connection.

"Legalize and let people do what they want" is more the route to go....Taxing something that people can grow in their closet is dopey.

Some of the halfwits immediately started blowing themselves up trying to make hash; haven't heard anything lately but for like 2 months there were six lab explosions in Colorado caused by these doper halfwits, something like that.

 

[Independent thinker]

It's because they replaced one type of black market with another. They went from a black market that provides an illegal good at a premium to a black market that replaced a legal good at a discount.

It's due to the onerous taxes, fees and other costs placed on the legal growers, distributors, and sellers.

Despite California politicians being against the second amendment, they have become quite adept at shooting themselves in the foot. As Carly Simon once said, "Nobody Does It Better".

 

[DudleySmith]

It's because they replaced one type of black market with another. They went from a black market that provides an illegal good at a premium to a black market that replaced a legal good at a discount.

It's due to the onerous taxes, fees and other costs placed on the legal growers, distributors, and sellers.

Nobody is forcing anybody to buy from either source so I can't work up a pity party for their angst.

 

[Pete7469]

Tax evasion should always be applauded regardless who is doing it.

 

[Oddball]

Some of the halfwits immediately started blowing themselves up trying to make hash; haven't heard anything lately but for like 2 months there were six lab explosions in Colorado caused by these doper halfwits, something like that.

Darwin having his way....No big deal.