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RE: Today's Weed News for August 22nd 2018 #NEWJERSEY
25 % tax does seem a little high but I would pay it if it meant that I could by weed at a store.
I hope he is right. As more states legalize it becomes harder for other states to justify keeping it illegal.
Texas is the one that needs help, I think. They can't put it on the ballot because their system does not allow for it so it has to be done in state house and senate which is a problem. I do think that once a highly populated and deeply red state turns green, it will be the death blow to cannabis prohabition. It will stop it from seeming like a right vs. left issue and a lot of people who oppose it because "that's what the other side wants" will stop caring.
Word. I feel like the whole ban on owning guns if you use cannabis also plays a big role in TX. But there's too much $$$ in legal weed, they will catch up eventually.
Yeah that might be an issue but I am pretty sure all they have to do is lie on the background check. Those things usually only look at criminal history so I don't know how they would know which drugs a person uses.
I think there may a way to use that law to our advantage though. It might be a fruitful way of drumming up support for legalization among groups that have traditionally opposed it. It is a matter of how it is framed. If it is put to them by saying that the government says that it can take your rights away for having this plant, they may develop a personal stake in the issue even if they don't particularly care about because prohibition starts to look like a threat to their pet cause.
I think there is more room for unity on drug law reform than a lot of people realize. People want to make it fit into this right/left paradigm but I see it as the authoritarians vs. everyone else. With cleaver "marketing," it may be possible to form an unusually diverse political coalition that would be willing to support fixing this broken system.