Could regulating/taxing pot save states from financial ruin?

thomhartmann

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Wed Aug-04-10 07:24 PM
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Could regulating/taxing pot save states from financial ruin?

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JuniperLea

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Wed Aug-04-10 07:27 PM
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1. Considering the current spread between price and production cost...

There's a lot of room for taxation!

Then maybe we can get back to making things from hemp as well... clothing, paper products... I think we could replace a lot of petroleum based products with hemp and hemp seed oil, not to mention saving a lot of trees!

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russspeakeasy

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Wed Aug-04-10 08:31 PM
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6. Exactly....

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asdjrocky

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Wed Aug-04-10 07:35 PM
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2. Coalition for Drug Free California... another word for the alcohol and big pharma industry. nt

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DeSwiss

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Wed Aug-04-10 07:36 PM
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3. +1000

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JuniperLea

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Wed Aug-04-10 07:42 PM
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4. Exactly...

He had no problem with Big Pharma selling us pills!

This Chabot fellow is a very poor spokesperson... "That's a very typical argument." And? Can you answer any of the questions in those very typical arguments? If they are so typical, you should have been able to come up with an answer by now.

Zero deaths attributed to pot... but let's keep alcohol, the killer of tens of thousands every year. Make sense? Uh... no.

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JuniperLea

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Wed Aug-04-10 08:08 PM
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5. This should be cross posted for Californians...

I'm shocked this isn't getting more feedback!

Kicked!

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Jimalene

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Wed Aug-04-10 08:31 PM
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7. More people in rehab for pot???...

I highly doubt this statment. And alcohol prohibition worked???? What nonsense.

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20score

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Wed Aug-04-10 08:53 PM
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8. If he is so willing to fight for prohibition, he should own all of its problems.

His prohibition of marijuana has killed 10 of thousands of people more than pot has. It's ruined millions more lives than marijuana and cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars - and has not made a dent in consumption.

What type of twisted person would advocate for that? Thank God my children didn't grow up to be that callous and irresponsible.

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