Majority of Americans want marijuana legalized

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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,302
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    The adult recreational market for marijuana will be worth $605.7 million. This doesn't even include the market for edibles — pot brownies, for example — that comprise a significant aspect of the market.

    The report estimated that 554,710 Coloradans — around 10% of the state's population — will use marijuana in 2014. This is a conservative estimate.

    Factoring in the Medical market, the Colorado market for marijuana will be 642,772 people — 12.4% of the state population.

    With a per-person usage rate of 3.53 ounces per year, the post-legalization estimate of demand for marijuana is 2.4 million ounces — roughly 75 tons — in 2014.

    This doesn't even factor in marijuana tourism.

    The 15% excise tax will yield an estimate $21.7 million in revenues for Colorado in 2014.

    A 15% sales tax will yield $90.9 million in 2014

    The 2.9% state sales tax will yield $17.6 million.


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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    This overtaxing by the IRS is going to shut down many dispensaries.

    The irony!

    Let them BE, for the love of Pete.

    I'd bet CO is like CA - we neither need nor can afford more businesses going down.

    (as an aside, I'd venture our in-home per-person consumption is way over that stated in the article :P )
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,302
    News flash. People like weed. They will find it. They will smoke it. Might as well tax it.

    It makes people mellow. Like as in yellow.

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jason P wrote:
    News flash. People like weed. They will find it. They will smoke it. Might as well tax it.

    It makes people mellow. Like as in yellow.
    I agree on the taxing of it - just not sin-taxing it; have this industry subjected to the same guidelines as any other legit business (which it is!).

    Anyway, on this lovely and warm evening, I raise a bowl to the starter of this thread, Miss Jeanwah :)
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
    hedonist wrote:
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    Anyway, on this lovely and warm evening, I raise a bowl to the starter of this thread, Miss Jeanwah :)

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited September 2014
    http://youtu.be/swojBQoCEhM
    the most important vegetable on the planet - William L. Courtney MD dietary raw cannabis specialist
    what a great plant & at under 12 minutes in length this informative video is a must see

    iowa has a long ways to catching up with the west coast & other regions where one can get help from a vegetable that is a super-power

    it is throughly amazing users of this plant are harassed, arrested, fined & jailed or worse, thrown in prison. we the people need demand this injustice stop immediately
    Post edited by chadwick on
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited September 2014
    http://news.msn.com/videos?videoid=91665dfd-f406-48d9-bfce-6339e5ae1aab&ap=true&ocid=OutP&from=OutP&FORM=BWVOLC

    in 1996 this man was sentenced to life without parole in a missouri prison for possession of 7 pounds of marijuana. there are 25 prisoners serving life sentences in the us on marijuana charges. something is throughly nuts here
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
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    no more forever."
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    who is helping these ppl get released? start a ice bucket type challenge, yes/no?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    chadwick said:

    who is helping these ppl get released? start a ice bucket type challenge, yes/no?

    That's freaking crazy. It's utterly ridiculous that anyone is in jail for pot. How about we stand on fertile soil, dump a bucket on cannabis seeds over head followed by buckets of room temp water?

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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    need a John Lennon type personality ... didn't he write 10 for 2 for John Sinclair and performed at a concert in his honour and John Sinclair was released days later ... it's late and I'm to lazy to search and am going by memory, if true talk about star power ... by the way RIP in peace Mr.John Lennon.
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    know1 said:

    I have no problem with it being legal. I have a BIG problem with taxing it unless the government lowers taxes somewhere else.

    For consumption tax so tax same as any commodity. Just grow your own as one would for tomatoes.
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    callen said:

    know1 said:

    I have no problem with it being legal. I have a BIG problem with taxing it unless the government lowers taxes somewhere else.

    For consumption tax so tax same as any commodity. Just grow your own as one would for tomatoes.
    So your saying add your homegrown herbs to salads and baked goods tax free.Live the self sustaining life.I like it.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    let's go, ed & pals! this needs a strong & heard voice. get on this shit
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited September 2014
    the marijuana shown in the clip looks like commercial compressed mexican brown pot full of seeds & stems & is 2 or 3 stars out of 5 stars. says he has a history with it & has been jammed up before.
    life w/out possiblity of parole? damn! the governor of missouri should be proud of himself as should the prosecuting attorney who is now trying to get him freed.

    odd as can be. i still need to visit the website they presented on the 25 marijuana lifers
    Post edited by chadwick on
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    write these guy & put some dollars on their books
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce

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