EDIT** latest articles claim cali expects $1.4 BILLION/yr in taxed revenues


^^ this doesnt even address the spinoff industries like hemp, and the 1000s of jobs created as a result. A+++ imo

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/us/28pot.html

another big milestone for the movement of legalization...

San Fran, obv promise land, has taken the 'debate' to the next level, officially.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BA191BH4AR.DTL

weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

imo, its inevitable. move to cali

/brag

dealers still gonna deal, people are still gonna buy, imo

 

Originally Posted by R_U_Nuts

I wonder when they make it legal will people buy legal pot at 50$ per ounce more than illegal pot? I dont smoke so just wondering.

well prices would drop significantly if they were able to be sold legally and to lots of people, if legalized prices would drop considerably to at least negate the tax. Some people will still buy illegally if cheaper obv but if its like $20-50 less for an ounce it will depend on the buyers risk-tolerance depending on penalties for buyin untaxed bud

 

Originally Posted by buchiYAYO

Im gonna move to cali and be the next phillip morris

F the Buchi haters

mad trees, trees

 

Originally Posted by ckingusc

well prices would drop significantly if they were able to be sold legally and to lots of people, if legalized prices would drop considerably to at least negate the tax. Some people will still buy illegally if cheaper obv but if its like $20-50 less for an ounce it will depend on the buyers risk-tolerance depending on penalties for buyin untaxed bud

u sure about that? the current drug trade has very little overhead (trust me I know) after legalization there might be alot of things ditributor have to pay for like licenses, taxes, all types of shit actually. Might drive the price up IMO.

 

Originally Posted by R_U_Nuts

I wonder when they make it legal will people buy legal pot at 50$ per ounce more than illegal pot? I dont smoke so just wondering.

If they've crafted the bill well, they'll have included very steep fines and other criminal penalties for selling without a license that will force illegal sellers to up their prices to compensate. This, plus the reduced demand for illegal weed since most/all casual smokers would rather go to their local weed store than seek out some criminal should force illegal prices to rise as well. I don't think it would be as expensive as legal weed, but the two would be comparable. Throw in the likelihood that the most powerful strains would likely be provided by legal growers who can experiment in the open and I think legal weed would do just fine.

edit: what cking said too, weed is already marked up a bunch because of its illegality. This would go away.

I admit that occasionally in the past I've looked upon California with scorn and derision, but in the case of their lead in moving toward the decriminilization of marijuana use, I have to give them credit.

Sadly, I look for the feds to shut this big happy state smoke-in down real soon, even if that means using the Army and National Guard to take over governance.

The "War on Drugs" is a cash cow for national law enforcement agencies like the DEA, the judicial system and prison systems, who have a never-ending supply of human fodder to process, and then you have all the state, city, county and local law enforcement who benefit from the fines, confiscations, litigations and punishments from the pursuit of pot smokers.

But more than that, the gubbermint has proclaimed to its citizens and the rest of the world over many decades that marijuana is, if not already the root of all evil, would certainly become so if marijuana were to be legalized.

To back down from that grandiose and idiotic stance after all these years would be tatamount to the federal government admitting 1.) It's retarded as shit; 2.) They fucked over the lives of millions of decent, ordinary people; and 3.) What people choose to do with their own money and their own bodies is not and never will be the government's business.

 

Originally Posted by Lord Supremo

How much were you selling for buchi? Interested to know if this whole area is absurd or if its just the District

well I dont want to say to much about what I was doing............

so lets jsut say it like this:

a person could get a 5LBs of some decent Candian cronic for about $17500
and u could expect to get rid of them for $4000 a piece individualy

Retailers could get as much as 6400 off of each one selling it for 100 dollars for 1/4 of an ounce.

Retailing is dangerous bc u have to deal with so many people. I like the wholesale side of it, Not as much profit but alot faster and less people to deal with

 

Originally Posted by buchiYAYO

selling it for 100 dollars for 1/4 of an ounce.

goddamn it, I knew it was just the District being absurd

 

Originally Posted by Lord Supremo

goddamn it, I knew it was just the District being absurd

how expensive is it there? what district? I thought u were in cali

 

Originally Posted by Admiral

Colorado is winning any pot movement. Id like to see it legalized despite not smoking pot, but this is always a site to see every year.

caption: <SPAN>Up in Smoke</SPAN>
Thousands of people on the quad at the University of Colorado in Boulder exhale marijuana at 4:20 p.m. on April 20, an annual ritual marking the drug's unofficial national holiday.

I would love to make it there in my lifetime to take part in this. Looks pretty cool!

and I am loving the Kite up there in the middle of the pic!

I go to college in DC...haven't smoked much out here since the best I can find is $60/8th for not that good quality

Even for a non-smoker the whole ordeal is unbelievable.

Glad to see this I really hope Cali passes the legalization. If so I think we can see some broad sweeping marijuana reform, definitely in the west. I was reading some of the arguments against this broad that is repping the police chiefs and it was laughable. Pretty sure she was saying legalization would somehow strengthen cartels which is absolutely absurd. You know its bad legislation when the people most for it are greedy politicians, dealers, and drug cartels

 

Originally Posted by conartist21

we got dankier bounce out in cali too.

jussssayin

I dunno about all that