weed now taxed in cali!
 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/...tax/index.html

put that in your pipe and smoke it!

ofcourse...

$18 per $1000 spent... that will feed a lot of people!

Where do those dealers get the weed? do they have large medical weed farms somewhere? Or do they buy it from the same people as the drugdealers?

XXI business

maybe i well

The Oakland Tax is expected to raise the city $1 million annually. In these times that may not seem like a lot but every bit helps. There is talk the state may add a tax that would raise $1 billion annually. LA is considering a tax too and considering there are more marijuana dispensaries than there are Starbuck's or McDonald's in LA they should go for it. The dispensaries are happy to pay the tax as it legitimizes them and they will of course pass the tax on to the consumer.

they get it from multiple sources. some people get their cards and a few of them will all live together and grow a bunch.. other people just grow mass amounts. i think some of the larger growers probably don't deal with street dealers b/c of the risk of getting caught.

As if no one saw this coming.

I have the solution to all of our problems. Making drugs legal isn't the answer. Keep them illegal, and instead of putting people in jail and teaching them how to toss the salad (which costs us money), fine them with stiff fines. Why pay to put them in an over crowded prison when we can turn them all into profit?

7 years from now all drugs will be leagl, 20 years from now people wont be able to understand at least the younger population why the fuck gov made such a big deal, kinda like we dont understand why booze was illegal

One of the reasons for the war against drugs, is the crime that follow in the slipstream when the drugusers need to generate capital to purchase drugs.

so do you think stiff fines will help that?

Weed has always been taxed.

but now the gov't is getting a piece of the action, without having to arrest people. this is a step in the right direction.

weed is a herb, why is it illegal any way. Tax it please, cause i dont want property taxes to go up in los angeles

I am sorry, who was getting the taxes before then? And don't forget, it is still illegal under Federal law.

Cali should legalize weed and then tax it all. We wouldn't have a budget deficIt, Cali would be rolling in cash!

you said weed has always been taxed, and you are correct, by drug dealers. every time it changes hands, it get taxed.

Wrong. It is taxed at the store level. Some add it directly to the cost, others add it at the end just like if you were buying it at Macy's.

yep :pimp

the way it is now is just fine, making it totaly legal would create problems, for right now,, anyone over the age of 18 can get it, you can get a card for writers cramp.
Just grow it and you don't have to pay any taxes

um, you're wrong.. it is not always taxed at the store level. and drug dealers add taxes. i have heard it straight from their mouths
for example-

"I paid $100 for this, and I gotta tax you $15"

Store prices are the same as street prices last time I checked.

Ash Moon 4 Life.

the 10 am line up!

' hey man, do you think you can give me a ride to the store'

wn4l

I wouldnt call that tax, thats is lingo, and its basically hand to hand profit...

Thats not the same thing as taxing

6 a.m. Grape Swisher

glad 2 hear m0re taxes i d0nt sm0ke anym0re

there is more than that.. here are more taxes-
"make me leave my house tax"
"after midnight tax"
"before noon tax"
"wake me up tax"
"calling me non stop tax"

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Thats a Dealer's problem...

Sorry, my bad. I thought you were trying to have a serious discussion.

If you say so. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

im sorry, i forgot you are the authority on everything.

I never thought it'd happen.
Wait until the Fed sues Cali for the money lol

lol

i see this isn't your first rodeo

I guess that would mean that if they have been paying taxes, which I believe they have, they're not passing it on to the consumer.

I think the potential problem you can get with that is that the cost of finding these people and fining them will be greater than the fines they will pay. I guess you could make the fines enormous, but then you would have judges throwing out the fines or reducing them. If some poor bastard got caught with a couple joints and hit with a 5K fine he could argue that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

there are huge weed farms in the central/northern part of california, entire villages turned into weed growers..
hippies became millionaires.

Its way harder to grow than most people think. At least good weed. You get that increased electric bill, equipment costs, pest problems, smell problems, etc. Then if you fuck something up right before harvest, you are stuck with shit or a bad smoke.


You are way better off buying it at the shop and paying the tax.:2 cents:

Saw that coming from a mile away...