Let me know when you become honest enough to acknowledge the Black Market is growing and that once you Pot Fans legalize recreational weed and then impose regulations and taxes on the legal stuff, you are only causing the Black Market to get even bigger.
But you advocate for the very thing that is growing the Black Market: regulations.
If legal pot were the same price as illegal pot, the Black Market MIGHT shrink. But good luck forcing higher costs on legal businesses and thinking the Black Market won’t take advantage.
In other words, your positions are responsible for growing the Black Market: you took away the fear for illegal growers and sellers while raising the costs on the legal stuff.
Craig, How will the Black Market get bigger when the people buying from the legal stores are former Black Market customers? I believe the Black Market will remain because of cost concerns, but I believe many buyers will prefer the legal markets, thus shrinking the Black Market, but probably not as quick as originally thought.
So far in California, you are wrong. The Black Market is getting bigger according to all experts and the Legal Market isn’t anywhere near as large as projected by the Pro Pot crowd. As I said, legal sales were $2.5 million in 2018 after being $3.0 million in 2017, according the State authorities. And only medi-pot was legal in 2017.
Sacramento is considering lowering the tax rates on legal pot businesses, even though tax receipts are already 40% lower than projected. (The first time in history that liberals acknowledged that high taxes hurt business, by the way.)
CC, how do you know that Black Market is getting bigger and who are the experts? If there was true knowledge of the dealings of the Black Market, wouldn’t they be exposed and arrested, thus shrinking the Black Market???
February 12, 2019 at 2:35 pm
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Don’t ask me. Ask the State of California. They are the ones reporting LOWER sales to legal dispensaries in 2018 than in 2017.
They are the ones reporting tax collection rates at 40% lower than projected.
And everyone with a brain in California knows that legalizing recre-pot produced mass consumption, which is apparent in any bar you go to in California now. Vaping pot is all the rage, don’t you know.
“Wellspring turned up violations involving product labeling, sanitation and security.”
One of many reasons why we need regulations around recreational and medicinal marijuana.
Let me know when you become honest enough to acknowledge the Black Market is growing and that once you Pot Fans legalize recreational weed and then impose regulations and taxes on the legal stuff, you are only causing the Black Market to get even bigger.
More Regulations! Right, dreamer.
You wrote that at 2:07PM today. See my 1:16PM post over here https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/02/11/517284.htm/?comments
But you advocate for the very thing that is growing the Black Market: regulations.
If legal pot were the same price as illegal pot, the Black Market MIGHT shrink. But good luck forcing higher costs on legal businesses and thinking the Black Market won’t take advantage.
In other words, your positions are responsible for growing the Black Market: you took away the fear for illegal growers and sellers while raising the costs on the legal stuff.
Way to go.
If regulations aren’t the answer and removing regulations aren’t the answer either – what’s the answer?
Properly written regulations to support moral guidance and physical well-being, with fair, prompt enforcement thereof.
“properly written”, “moral guidance”, “fair, prompt enforcement”.
Care to use any more relative, ambiguous terms?
Craig, How will the Black Market get bigger when the people buying from the legal stores are former Black Market customers? I believe the Black Market will remain because of cost concerns, but I believe many buyers will prefer the legal markets, thus shrinking the Black Market, but probably not as quick as originally thought.
So far in California, you are wrong. The Black Market is getting bigger according to all experts and the Legal Market isn’t anywhere near as large as projected by the Pro Pot crowd. As I said, legal sales were $2.5 million in 2018 after being $3.0 million in 2017, according the State authorities. And only medi-pot was legal in 2017.
Sacramento is considering lowering the tax rates on legal pot businesses, even though tax receipts are already 40% lower than projected. (The first time in history that liberals acknowledged that high taxes hurt business, by the way.)
CC, how do you know that Black Market is getting bigger and who are the experts? If there was true knowledge of the dealings of the Black Market, wouldn’t they be exposed and arrested, thus shrinking the Black Market???
Don’t ask me. Ask the State of California. They are the ones reporting LOWER sales to legal dispensaries in 2018 than in 2017.
They are the ones reporting tax collection rates at 40% lower than projected.
And everyone with a brain in California knows that legalizing recre-pot produced mass consumption, which is apparent in any bar you go to in California now. Vaping pot is all the rage, don’t you know.
Apparently several workers failed drug tests…
(I keed! I keed!)