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NYT: Legal Marijuana Sales Hit $5.4 Billion in 2015
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themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
Most likey never happening. It is more for insurrance reasons why companies drug test. Private companies will always drug test and I for one do not disagree with it.Yeah, but I still can't partake until drug testing for it goes away. All this money I can't spend.
They will eventually.
Gambling once was in the same boat. It was denounced by churches and general public. Then riverboat gambling started on the Mississippi. It revitalized down towns and brought people across the river and up and down to gamble. The neighboring states, like the one across the river, saw all their citizens leaving and spending money, and the benefits the other state received - Lot of tax money and people dining out, etc.
In time the other states wanted a piece of the pie. More approved gambling. Same thing will happen with weed I believe.
As someone stated, the catch to all this is that as long as it is illegal in the US, an employer can test and fire you.
What makes you think they wouldn't stop testing for it like alcohol?
If not, they need to use the tests that show really recent traces of it in your system and not the ones that go back for 3 months
Abstrusity
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In many states, they could fire you for it regardless. Marijuana users, like cigarette smokers, aren't a protected class. It's a flimsy argument, but with at-will employment, that's just how it works. If it's not "He was smoking it on the job" it's "the smell was distracting and leading to a terrible work environment." Of course, the real reason might be because they don't like weed and don't like you smoking weed, but they could still get away with firing you for that, too. Even if it 's for a medical condition. It's all a liability issue. Personally, if you work with heavy machinery at all, it's probably safer not to partake, and it saves companies big in the long run. Even if you're the best employee they've ever had, a split second delay could mean you lose your fingers. If they think marijuana use could lead to more such accidents, they're fully within their rights to ban the use thereof.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Canada pays that tax in its sleep. You'll get used to it.
SynthFetish
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I'm happy to have contributed to that tax revenue.
SolarPowered
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lol
Come 2024 New York and California alone would probably bring in close to that amount.
PA has 18% tax on liqueur, plus the normal 6% sales tax. If/when it becomes legal in PA, I suspect it will be taxed at a similar rate.
Yeah I would think that states would want to legalize it to help keep people in. Despite NJ having a pretty good job market, more people are moving out than in (high property taxes and insurance premiums are a big reason). How to go about keeping more in? WAIT I HAVE AN IDEA!!
BlueTsunami
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what's the tax rate in WA?
Ether_Snake
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Oh yeah, as opposed to considering the ethics of investing in tobacco, beer, drugs, guns, missiles.
As for the tax money, it really only shifts money around in the end, but potentially from less-taxed expenditures.
The real cost savings would be on the incarceration and policing/judicial side, as well a reduction in organized crime profits, and potentially health care side.
Prison/police lobbies are going to be a bitch to get around.
Then they should start alcohol testing too. Alcohol is far worse for your health than weed.
Oh wait that's right, it's really not for insurance reasons. I love this ass backwards country.
SapientWolf
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CA is a lock, but it's going to be a tough battle in the other states unless they find a way to mobilize young voters.
I think we can all agree that the current laws on marijuana use are draconian, regardless of personal opinions on the drug itself. Out society does not require long jail sentences for pot to function properly.
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