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King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Philadelphia saves $2 million in 12 months by reducing marijauna enforcment
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Now if they could just get employers to stop ruining peoples lives for traces of a substance that is as safe or safer than alcohol.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Sensible step. Not quite far enough, but in the right direction.
I haven't had a prolonged period where I haven't bene able to get hold of pot for quite some time. But I don;t doubt it will come around eventually. I dread that happening. Though I enjoy it and use it recreationally, I also use it to self medicate against eczema flareups and the stress cycle they lead to. Also, without pot my mind is often on overdrive, everything moves too fast. Now, I could go to the doctors and get medication for what might be a very mild bi-polar sitch, but in what way is that better for me than a joint?
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To shreds, you say?
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Yeah, but, like, they spent, like three million on like, mars bars and munchies and stuff. Man.
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Spike in obesity due to increased munchies from marijuana decriminalization.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Colorado and a number of other states have made "medical marijuana" legal. All you need is a medical marijuana card issued by a licensed physician. My town has at least one medical marijuana dispensory and big cities have a plethora of them. Cities impose a tax on the proceeds and make money off them. Seems like the way to to me.
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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California has a ton of them. It was also just passed in Delaware. I wonder how the numbers add up in revenues generated vs. costs, if any....
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According to the Denver Post, in 2010 medical-marijuana dispensaries put hundreds of thousands of dollars a month into state and city treasuries in Colorado. The state has collected more than $2.2 million in sales tax from dispensaries. In Denver, which has more dispensaries than any other city in Colorado, the businesses have also paid more than $2.2 million this year in local sales tax.
In the vast scheme of things that is not a huge amount, but money strapped Colorado needs every penny it can get. |
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Touring the facilities
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The plains of Colorado
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True dat. They cut a ton of money in the schools all over this state this last year. I don't have need/desire for medical marijuana, myself. I have heard it has been a boon for the state, though as far as tax revenue. Up where I live, the dispensaries are banned.
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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They must even it out with crackheads, because Colorado is still the skinniest state in the country.
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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Yay Philly!
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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I saw a bit of a doco about the USA last night. It pointed out how prohibition was an obvious failure, but wasn't repealed until 1933, and this was only done because in the Great Depression the govt. really really needed the money from booze tax.
Maybe the Great Recession of the 2010s economics plus sense will trump wowserism and cannabis prohibition will also be repealed. Maybe. In fact, it is interesting to trace the history of these things. From 1870 to 1916 or so was The Great Binge, when everything was legal. You could send "care packages" to the front in WWI with morphine, cocaine and heroin. By 1925 all of tese, and even alcohol (US) were banned. In some cases, we're still banning more drugs, but in come cases, were starting to un-ban.
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trying hard to be a better person
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I saw this thread title and thought the first word was pedophilia. I thought that was funny for a second.
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To shreds, you say?
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We'll see it, supposedly the tobacco companies were ready for it decades ago, but that
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