Here Comes The Weed
Initiative would allow pot sales at liquor stores
"SALEM, Ore. - Relax it and tax it.
That's the motto behind a new cannabis initiative that would allow Oregon's state-controlled liquor stores to legally sell marijuana to adults.
Initiative backers said their plan would send 90 percent of the proceeds from the state's sale of marijuana to Oregon's General Fund, which could lower Oregonians' state tax burden.
Smaller percentages would go to funding drug abuse education and treatment programs. The initiative would also legalize the growing of hemp, a non-drug variant of cannabis that can be used to make industrial-strength fibers and bio-fuels.
Supporters claim that allowing cannabis cultivation and sales through state liquor stores would add $300 million in combined tax revenues and savings to Oregon's budget.Paul Stanford of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act said the measure would also put a dent in illegal dealing of the weed."We want to take marijuana out of the hands of children and substance abusers, who control the market today, and put it in the hands of the state's liquor control commission and the age limit of 21 will be strictly enforced," Stanford said at a press briefing. Supporters have two years to collect nearly 83,000 signatures to get the measure on the November ballot in 2010."
This is a story from late 2008 and I'm sure they've collected far more signatures than they needed to get the initiative on the ballot.
We're about to see pot legalization in every state. All governments are flat broke and need revenue. Legalizing mary jane and taxing it is far too temptingly lucrative to keep the phony drug war going.
So that's one big reason pot is soon going to be everywhere. They need the damn money. Another is that hemp farming is long overdue and can't start in earnest until the cannabis stigma disappears. Hemp is literally going to save the world but pot has to be completely legalized before the necessary hundreds of thousands of acres are finally planted. The northwest is one of the best places in the country to start hemp farming and I hope Oregon gets the ball rolling.
"SALEM, Ore. - Relax it and tax it.
That's the motto behind a new cannabis initiative that would allow Oregon's state-controlled liquor stores to legally sell marijuana to adults.
Initiative backers said their plan would send 90 percent of the proceeds from the state's sale of marijuana to Oregon's General Fund, which could lower Oregonians' state tax burden.
Smaller percentages would go to funding drug abuse education and treatment programs. The initiative would also legalize the growing of hemp, a non-drug variant of cannabis that can be used to make industrial-strength fibers and bio-fuels.
Supporters claim that allowing cannabis cultivation and sales through state liquor stores would add $300 million in combined tax revenues and savings to Oregon's budget.Paul Stanford of the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act said the measure would also put a dent in illegal dealing of the weed."We want to take marijuana out of the hands of children and substance abusers, who control the market today, and put it in the hands of the state's liquor control commission and the age limit of 21 will be strictly enforced," Stanford said at a press briefing. Supporters have two years to collect nearly 83,000 signatures to get the measure on the November ballot in 2010."
This is a story from late 2008 and I'm sure they've collected far more signatures than they needed to get the initiative on the ballot.
We're about to see pot legalization in every state. All governments are flat broke and need revenue. Legalizing mary jane and taxing it is far too temptingly lucrative to keep the phony drug war going.
So that's one big reason pot is soon going to be everywhere. They need the damn money. Another is that hemp farming is long overdue and can't start in earnest until the cannabis stigma disappears. Hemp is literally going to save the world but pot has to be completely legalized before the necessary hundreds of thousands of acres are finally planted. The northwest is one of the best places in the country to start hemp farming and I hope Oregon gets the ball rolling.
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