Christine Green
New Member
It's difficult for people to accept change.
I get that. It's difficult for me.
But decades of prohibition and billions of dollars spent on useless incarceration are enough.
Sooner or later we must quit wasting money prosecuting marijuana users and start taxing them.
Sooner, hopefully.
Like beginning with the November election.
As reported by The Arizona Republic's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, a study by the non-partisan Tax Foundation indicated that Arizona could collect as much as $113 million in new tax revenue if marijuana is legalized for recreational use and taxed 15 percent.
It's time.
The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol expects to ask voters in November to legalize the drug for recreational use. Licensed shops would sell the marijuana, with tax money going to education and public health.
Adults 21 and older could possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in their homes without obtaining licenses, as long as the plants are in a secure area. The initiative would create a Department of Marijuana Licenses and Control to regulate the "cultivation, manufacturing, testing, transportation and sale of marijuana."
Opponents of the ballot measure will run a campaign based on fear tactics. They've already begun to do so.
But we've already wasted too much time and resources criminalizing marijuana.
Will there be problems with legalization? Sure. But they can't be any worse than the problems we have with prohibition. Too many non-violent offenders are in jail. And too much money is going to drug cartels.
It's like I was told a while back by the chairman of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, J. P. Holyoak. He said, "Regulating marijuana like alcohol would bolster our state's economy with new tax revenue, new jobs, and new business opportunities. Business leaders typically recognize the value of a legal and regulated alcohol market for adults. Our initiative would establish a similar system but for an objectively less harmful product."
Change is difficult.
It can be scary.
But there are at least $113 million reasons to legalize marijuana.
Rejecting them would be the real reefer madness
Time to tax it.
News Moderator: Christine Green 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Montini: The $113 Million Reasons We Will Legalize Marijuana
Author: EJ Montini
Photo Credit: Photo: AP
Website: https://www.azcentral.com
I get that. It's difficult for me.
But decades of prohibition and billions of dollars spent on useless incarceration are enough.
Sooner or later we must quit wasting money prosecuting marijuana users and start taxing them.
Sooner, hopefully.
Like beginning with the November election.
As reported by The Arizona Republic's Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, a study by the non-partisan Tax Foundation indicated that Arizona could collect as much as $113 million in new tax revenue if marijuana is legalized for recreational use and taxed 15 percent.
It's time.
The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol expects to ask voters in November to legalize the drug for recreational use. Licensed shops would sell the marijuana, with tax money going to education and public health.
Adults 21 and older could possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in their homes without obtaining licenses, as long as the plants are in a secure area. The initiative would create a Department of Marijuana Licenses and Control to regulate the "cultivation, manufacturing, testing, transportation and sale of marijuana."
Opponents of the ballot measure will run a campaign based on fear tactics. They've already begun to do so.
But we've already wasted too much time and resources criminalizing marijuana.
Will there be problems with legalization? Sure. But they can't be any worse than the problems we have with prohibition. Too many non-violent offenders are in jail. And too much money is going to drug cartels.
It's like I was told a while back by the chairman of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, J. P. Holyoak. He said, "Regulating marijuana like alcohol would bolster our state's economy with new tax revenue, new jobs, and new business opportunities. Business leaders typically recognize the value of a legal and regulated alcohol market for adults. Our initiative would establish a similar system but for an objectively less harmful product."
Change is difficult.
It can be scary.
But there are at least $113 million reasons to legalize marijuana.
Rejecting them would be the real reefer madness
Time to tax it.
News Moderator: Christine Green 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Montini: The $113 Million Reasons We Will Legalize Marijuana
Author: EJ Montini
Photo Credit: Photo: AP
Website: https://www.azcentral.com
