The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that around half of all drug arrests are for marijuana possession.
Gotta be careful for all those dangerous marijuanas on the streets.
I just think they're finally considering my idea where we arrest as many people as possible for bullshit crimes, and then we make Smash TV real because we'll finally have enough prisoners to pull it off.
They really ought to play off the taxation angle of it to get more Republicans on board.
IIRC, taxation of weed in Colorado has surpassed tax revenue from cigarettes and alcohol combined.
They'd also need to show that taxation revenue surpasses private prison inmates who were jailed for marijuana possession, so who knows.
See, I don't know if that would appeal to GOP or not because the whole reason they like jailing people for having weed is because of skin color, not the drug.
It's more that the GOP can't pilfer the profits of taxation, but they can give nice contracts to their prison-owning friends and receive kickbacks.
I have no doubt that the GOP is generally racist, but I think their strongest facet is their selfishness. I think they use racism and sexism as weapons to get what they want, but they don't really care what happens to black people (or anyone else, really) as long as they get as much money and power as possible.
Now, the GOP voters...
I don't care anything about pardoning or commuting those already in jail over marijuana possession
I'd really rather not have it taxed super high given that it's extremely extremely low health impact doesn't really deserve a huge sin tax.
How about we just make it legal and tax it like any other good instead of having that fucking thicc 30% excise tax that's so popular in legal states?
I am curious why. Why shouldn't an appeal of law retroactively free/expunge the records of those who only broke such a law (being posession of Marijuana. NOT intent to sell/deal)
Sin taxes are fine on things that are not critical to human survival. Gambling has an extremely extremely low health impact yet has a sin tax and it's working out fine.
You don't need weed to survive. And for those using it medically, insurance is paying for it (and I'm pretty certain it's taxed differently anyhow, if at all)
No, they're fine on things that have hugely negative societal impacts. There should be an actual justification for taxing something more highly.
This is because it actually does have a health impact, just not a physical one; gambling is very addictive, weed is not.
This is a very bad reason to tax something so heavily.
This is wrong. I'm a medical user and I have to pay for it myself, and I only get a 5% tax deduction, so I'm still paying a 25% tax.
"Medical marijuana" in its current form is a farce. No other form of medicine works like medical marijuana does.
Real medicine has exact prescriptions with huge amounts of funding into research and studies to extract and utilize specific compounds in exact quantities taken in a specific way.
Medical marijuana, on the other hand, is.... permission to possess a certain amount of marijuana and do basically whatever with it with products that -- while held to a decent amount of regulation and can be considered safe -- are not quite "medicine".
Now, what I think should happen is that all weed is just legal for adults and people can use weed for whatever reasons -- including self-medication if they find it helps them -- and "medical marijuana" will refer to medical products that are produced using marijuana, as opposed to "okay now you can buy weed legally".
Most shops carry pills with dosages that range from 5mg to 50mg. I see old people buying them all the time.
To be fair, it's impossible to develop any kind of medical application or standardized formulation into marijuana when it has spent decades listed on Schedule 1, aka substances for which there is no known medical application. It's been nearly impossible to get governments to authorize studies on weed, and when they do they tend to bury the results if the results don't confirm to the government's hardline anti-drug stance.
So the state of "medical marijuana" is an absolute dogshit mess but it has to be because the alternative under the current system is total blanket prohibition and that many more people getting hooked on opioids instead.
Right, I should add that I believe the reason medical marijuana sucks right now is solely because our government is fucking garbage and is banning all research into actually using it medicinally
It's just like this weird little game we're playing where we go "okay we legalized weed kiiiiiiiiinda" when they should just be fucking legalizing it for everyone in the first goddamn place
But how else will the FOR FUCKING PROFIT PRISONS make money? /s
US prisons have been known to employ slave labor for the profit of private companies, and proving the tax revenue from weed will be more beneficial to the politicians who prop the current system up than the kickbacks they get from these companies will be a hard sell.
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