Lecivius
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Joined: 8/5/2007 From: Denver Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Lecivius 98F here is sunny Denver Colorado, with rain in the forecast. Which of course means hail, and those circular cloud thingies everyone gets so excited about. All I hear about out of Denver these days is how people are staring at the clouds in general. Circular clouds with pastels from the sunset...you know, it's so beautiful, man! [takes a drag] Where are the chips? Plus, I've got cottonmouth goin' here too... Don't forget the brownies, man! I hear a lot of stuff like that, but from ground level let me say local government staff flunkies are doing all they can to tax that industry, and at prodigious rates. There are a few bunkers (have to be, to keep out the industrious and bored youth), but they are not as prolific as one might think. The WSJ had a big piece yesterday about the problems with standarization in the 'products' being sold. Since there's no standardized national THC measurement / standards (it's still illegal nationally), there's been no homogeneity of product and comparatives / doseage and administration is impractical. Who's going to pay for laboratory testing of product? The more costs you put into the system (taxes, registration, licensing, quality testing, etc.) the more likely to drive the market back underground. It's an interesting conundrum. Then the taxman will redouble his efforts and interest. It's illegal , damn it! (Unless of course we can reap taxes from it!). I suspect that the future may see corporations being given licenses to distribute , have taxes collected and some form of FDA or similar type organization involved, like was done to certain drugs at the turn of the 20th century. After all, even machine guns are legal if you are willing to do the paperwork and pay the taxes. This way you get control AND taxes! A Bureaucrats dream! The only thing better would be 1. Collecting taxes on the 'regulated' business 2. Establishing some big, top-heavy bureaucracy to 'oversee' the regulation and 3. Eventually decrying the practice and supporting state class-action suits against the product some time down the line. The latter ostensibly because of some unforseen health issue, of course. Then they can use the class-action as some sort of windfall for the general fund. It's all about the children! Repeat as necessary. Amazing! Making pot legal here took the 'Boneheads From Boulder' 12 years to get through, and we have decided the reasons, rewards, and future plans in 5 minutes over coffee
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