A price cap on legal pot in Uruguay...

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Rob Roy said:
It would be best if nobody was held hostage by the gun and all people could grow, buy, sell or consume according to their wants and needs.
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I normally agree with 99% of your posts, but I'm always left wondering why you go with "what if" rather than "what is"..

"What if"... well, what if this, what if that, what if the other?

What we deal with here is, "what IS". I just wish you were a little more realistic and a little less ideological sometimes..
 
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ChesusRice

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It hasn't happened yet because marijuana is still illegal on the federal level.
And Colorado will move to regulate within the next year

Look at Arizona and Michigans laws now. And it will only get worse if the feds lift prohibition and allow commercial sales

And once again
Once the big players get involved your shit will be considered shwag
 
Someacdude

Someacdude

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ChesusRice said:
It hasn't happened yet because marijuana is still illegal on the federal level.
And Colorado will move to regulate within the next year

Look at Arizona and Michigans laws now. And it will only get worse if the feds lift prohibition and allow commercial sales

And once again
Once the big players get involved your shit will be considered shwag
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Exactly , no one buys home brew beer , ive said this for years, once big money and the government get involved what we get per lb , wont pay our electric bill.
But hey, look at the bright side, bucky and his minions will be gone from here, once they have to get a job,,,,,,,,,,,,with insurance
 
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ChesusRice

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Someacdude said:
Exactly , no one buys home brew beer , ive said this for years, once big money and the government get involved what we get per lb , wont pay our electric bill.
But hey, look at the bright side, bucky and his minions will be gone from here, once they have to get a job,,,,,,,,,,,,with insurance
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No one buys homebrew beer because it is illegal to sell without licensing and meeting regulation requirements
 
Trousers

Trousers

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ChesusRice said:
It hasn't happened yet because marijuana is still illegal on the federal level.
And Colorado will move to regulate within the next year
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It is like you enjoy being wrong.
Colorado has already legalized marijuana. The recreational stores will be open in January.
Colorado has already moved to regulate marijuana. You do not pay attention to things you like to talk about.




ChesusRice said:
Look at Arizona and Michigans laws now. And it will only get worse if the feds lift prohibition and allow commercial sales

And once again
Once the big players get involved your shit will be considered shwag
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They will grow it with Unicorn poop and fairy dust.
 
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ChesusRice

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Trousers said:
It is like you enjoy being wrong.
Colorado has already legalized marijuana. The recreational stores will be open in January.
Colorado has already moved to regulate marijuana. You do not pay attention to things you like to talk about.






They will grow it with Unicorn poop and fairy dust.
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Still not legally on the fed level and that's where the big agencies are.
And yes the big players will better and cheaper weed than you
 
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ChesusRice

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Trousers said:
Your paranoid fantasies are not even close to realistic.





You are a complete idiot.
I'll bet you a million dollars that never happens.
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Really
Then you should be able to brew 50 kegs of home brew cheaper than you can buy it in the store. Don't forget to n include the equipment costs
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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Padawanbater2 said:
I normally agree with 99% of your posts, but I'm always left wondering why you go with "what if" rather than "what is"..

"What if"... well, what if this, what if that, what if the other?

What we deal with here is, "what IS". I just wish you were a little more realistic and a little less ideological sometimes..
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Well thank you. What is, often only exists because people are too afraid or too indoctrinated to pursue, "what if". Embracing what is, if it is wrong, becomes embracing wrong. I try not to do that. When I examine "what is" I measure it against my core philosophy. If it violates it, I try not to encourage it or participate in it. Peace.
 
Trousers

Trousers

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ChesusRice said:
Really
Then you should be able to brew 50 kegs of home brew cheaper than you can buy it in the store. Don't forget to n include the equipment costs
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You can brew beer cheaper than you can buy in the store.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
 
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ChesusRice

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JUST THE START

Think of it as an A/B test for legal pot. While Colorado and Washington’s laws are based on a similar model — they both tax and tightly regulate legal markets for marijuana, require rigid security and third-party laboratory testing, limit sale to people over 21 and the amount an adult can carry, prohibit out-of-state investment, and track marijuana closely from “seed-to-sale” — there are important differences between the two approaches.
Washington has imposed a heavy 25% tax on each of the three parts of pot production: producer to processor, processor to retailer and retailer to customer. Regulators say that will put the price of marijuana pretax at an average of $12 a gram, a price that the ACLU’s Holcomb says is competitive with illicit pot on the street. Colorado votes on its pot tax — a less onerous 15% excise tax and 10% sales tax — next month. Sam Kamin, a professor at the University of Denver who advised Colorado on its regulations and who will also be serving on the ACLU’s panel to devise a plan for California, says finding the “sweet spot” for taxation is key. “We want this to be self-funding regulation that is robust, but we don’t want the price of legal marijuana so much higher than the black market that it becomes attractive again.”


Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/10/19/new-laws-chart-course-for-marijuana-legalization/#ixzz2ig6pWafb
 
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ChesusRice

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Representatives from the marijuana industry differ on the merits of a cap. Stephen DeAngelo, president of the Arc View investment group, which focuses on marijuana investments, says caps are necessary because if there is too much marijuana flooding the system, retailers fight to keep prices down, which incentivizes them to cut corners on quality and safety measures like lab testing. Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, disagrees. “By limiting the legal market, they are enriching the illegal market,” Smith says.

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/10/19/new-laws-chart-course-for-marijuana-legalization/#ixzz2ig79Im8b
 
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ChesusRice

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Colorado and Washington will also license pot businesses differently. For the first few months of the new market, Colorado requires “vertical integration,” which means that every marijuana business must be involved in all parts of the business — growing, processing, and selling — to get a license. Barbara Brohl, the state’s regulator says they did this because they thought it would initially limit the number of businesses, making it easier to control the new market. Starting this summer, Colorado will open the market to those interested in specialized roles. By contrast, Washington prohibits “vertical integration” and instead only permits businesses to get licensed in one stage of production: growing, processing or selling. Washington’s intent, says Smith, the spokesman for Washington’s Liquor Control Board, was to avoid allowing monopolists to keep prices artificially high.

Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/10/19/new-laws-chart-course-for-marijuana-legalization/#ixzz2ig7FKmiK
 
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