Another attempt by the Oregon legislature to socialize and tax medical marijuana.
If the legislation, which is currently in committee review, becomes law, the state would take control of Oregon’s booming cannabis industry, bringing growing and sales under the public domain.
Oregon’s current medical cannabis program allows care providers and patients to grow their own supply, but both Republicans and Democrats in the state feel the system is not working. Their solution is to bankroll the bud on the public dime and charge a weighty tax — $98 per ounce — every time an approved patient makes a purchase.
A similar attempt was defeated in 2004.
Those electrons, we will be trading them like pennies… I will give you 1MW for that house and I will throw in some farads to cover title costs
Agreed, prohibition was proven to be futile. Why not bring dollars into the tax base? Turn over the manufacture and distribution to big business and instantaneously relieve the drug cartels in Mexico of their power. That would lead a skeptical person to consider if it is truly desired for the operations to cease. Make your own fuel? Who would have thunk? No? Not an ulterior motive. Distributed energy is the future. We were told again today by Obama. Comments of $150 oil are not made unless they intend for it to happen. The key is the catalyst to make it happen. Read between the lines. Demand? Or World event? Last years speculation may have curtailed the world event. $300 oil is not doable. $150 oil is motivation for cap in trade, carbon certificates, unregulated. We don’t want more bubbles my ass. They don’t want any more popped bubbles is more like it. There will be no choice but alternative energy. Before we know it, we will have a world full of electricians running smart grids day and night. From everyone being either a Realtors & Mortgage Brokers to Electricians & Energy Wholesalers.
The real solution is education and providing assistance to families with young children – a proven return on investment for taxpayers –
As to legalizing pot, I don’t imagine it is much different than ending the prohibition on alcohol (which I learned was actually in place so that people could not make their own auto fuel)-
Never having smoked anything, cigarettes or pot, but knowing many people who do, medicinally and otherwise, I am not sure what to think of this bill. California thinks it will relieve their budget woes but so would generating distributed energy…
Desperate people do desperate things in times of desperation. I would like to laugh but it is actually the stark reality of many individuals. The tragic part is many are on the precipice and haven’t the slightest idea.
Yep, before you know it the whole budget will have gone ‘Up In Smoke’
They are considering legalizing in California and earning revenue just like cigarettes and saving money on prisons
That would bankrupt the state! OHP would be required to cover Cheech & Chongs next big hit…