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Essentially they want to make it legal to do what minorities have been getting locked up for for decades while also making it only legal for them (the big corps or government) to do it and pursue other uses of it. American capitalism at its finest.
Anyone can grow it themselves. No need for stores, taxes, regulations.
I imagine if this was the norm it would have little to no monetary value. People would just trade different strains with each other if they wished to sample something different.
Too many prohibitionists who love their nanny state to ever have this become a reality, though.
As it's been said on this board, Washington State's marijuana law goes "live" tomorrow. They are so ready to have the state legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, but they also voted on getting OUT of state run alcohol.
I'm pretty sure people who want to legalize marijuana are not focused.
Really now? So you support continuing to waste tax payers money and valuable resources on a failed war on weed, by prosecuting, and locking folks up (depending where, and how much they have on them when caught) over possession, consumption or cultivation of a plant that was used for 1,000 of years until a bunch of whiny corporatists and bureacrats got together to ban it, because they feared losing money? No I'm sure those of us who support legalization (whether we partake or not) are QUITE focused, and realize the immorality and the hypocrisy behind prohibition of cannabis!
Everything, and I do mean everything, is taxed and/or regulated. There is just no argument why Cannabis should be exempt.
If you want to buy marijuana now you have to go to the black market and there is no guarantee that you are getting what you think you are getting. Plus, the drug dealers aren't going to care about your age, so minors can get it pretty easily. Regulating pot lets the state set age, supply chain/access restrictions and set control standards. When you walk in to a licensed CO MJ dispensary you know what you are getting (no rat poison in your pot) and you know the consumers meet a certain standard (age, residency, etc.).
Another benefit of regulation is you take all the MJ drug money away from the Mexican cartels by prohibiting sellers from buying from the cartels. I recall one of the CO regulation stating that dispensaries must grow 85% of their product or 85% must be domestically sourced. I don't remember the exact regulation, but I remember the 85%. Another regulation states that you can grow up to 6 plants for personal use, but they can't be in the public or accessible to children.
Taxing just makes sense until the day cigarettes and alcohol aren't taxed and that is never going to happen.
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