Hitting other candidates, Paul said mockingly: “They think marijuana is a gateway drug to heroin”. But there’s a dilemma because while marijuana is legal in Colorado and 22 other states, most medical only, and both may become legal in Ohio, pot is still illegal to the federal government. Freedman says Colorado should get around $93 million this year.
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It’s a sign that the stigma of selling a drug that remains illegal under federal law may be fading.
The benefits of marijuana legalization, he said, could apply to other hot-button political issues like gun violence. And public consumption is still opposed by a majority of those surveyed.
Donald Trump: The GOP front-runner’s position has changed over the years. Years ago, he supported legalizing all drugs. “I believe that that’s really the only Republican chance at having a real good contest against whoever the Democrats [choose]”. “And I feel strongly about that”. But what about states’ rights? Generally Colorado has to refund money to taxpayers when its total revenues exceed the growth formula. He also supports medical marijuana “in compassionate cases”.
Colorado: the mountains, the Wild Wild West and when it comes to growing marijuana, Colorado is at least to a degree the Wild West because there, if you pass a licensing test you can have a grow facility. “The last thing we need is a bunch of people running around with decreased IQ”. It seems to me that when the state of California allowed the legalization of pot, in total breach of federal law, it is basically saying that the state can break federal law but woe to any body that breaks state law. But he left open the states’ rights question. He then got a little confusing.
This interview was in April.
Opponents say the amendment language does not mandate the creation of or specify details for a legalized medicinal marijuana marketplace in the state. Robert J. Corry Jr., chair of the “No on Prop BB” campaign, calls the pot tax “unjust” and argues that the state “collected unlawfully exorbitant taxes”. “I haven’t taken a stand on…the actual legalization”. Now that it’s legal are more people partaking in marijuana, more new people, or is it the same people that were doing it illegally? But Vanderveen says there are more Starbucks than pot shops there. I wonder who’s going to be keeping those books?
Gov. Jeb Bush: The former Florida governor acknowledged that Paul was talking about him and that yes, as a teen, he’d smoked pot.
“My perception is people expected the sky to fall, a lot of news stories about large scale tragedies, but it’s been relatively smooth”, Freedman said. “My mom’s certainly not happy that I just did”.
Backers of legal marijuana in Ohio said there will be a tax revenue bonanza.
“Administratively, it’s very easy for the new president” to reverse current administration policy and start over, noted John Hudak, a Brookings Institution fellow who studies marijuana policy.
Carson, who led the GOP race in one poll released this week, repeatedly talks about the potential danger of marijuana on developing brains – and he’s had longstanding concerns about intoxicants. “It means better law enforcement … better streets, nicer parks, the kind of things we all enjoy”.
According to Colorado state law, anytime an estimated tax is exceeded that excess amount is targeted for a refund to taxpayers.
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In 2014, the first year of recreational legalization in Colorado, the number of children who were accidentally exposed to marijuana for instance, by eating a marijuana-infused edible thinking it was a regular piece of candy significantly increased from the previous year. “I’ve been to Amsterdam a few times”. Legal pot is taxed.
