Discussion for article #225589
Cuomo wonât say anything about it, but I bet heâll push it behind the scenes so thereâs more tax income. Look at Colorado and Washington. My home state needs that money, but thereâs really no other way theyâll get it from the current tax base.
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Quite courageous of the New York Times to take on the private prison industry like that.
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Cuomoâs entire life is geared towards the advancement of Cuomo.
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What a daring position for the Times to take. They should come out against miscegenation laws any day nowâŚ
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I heard Judith Miller was embedded in a commune - back on the farm.
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It is not the pot the government is concerned with itâs keeping the lawyers and bankers who profit from the pot from losing any money. As they buy up the legalized pot operations and can still make the money off of the product the government will come around to legalization. The plantation will run the way the owners want it to run. Just keep picking and shutup.
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Itâs really not even about tax revenue, though that is a nice cherry on the side.
This is about Big Business wanting to get into the marijuana game. So they buy a few ads, take a few editors out to dinner, and voila! The NYT is on board with legalizing marijuana.
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Oh, no doubt! But right now Prince Andrew is walking a tightrope because he has to win this election, and then start his Presidential campaign (which will happen the first weekend after he knocks Astorino out of the park). That means he canât/wonât say, or do, anything even remotely liberal â including making the final decision on fracking the Marcellus Shale. But just as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, Cuomo will definitely work the back room for whatever deal makes Cuomo look good, even if itâs at a remove.
âClaims that marijuana is a gateway to more dangerous drugs are as fanciful as the âReefer Madnessâ images of murder, rape and suicide,â the Times wrote.
The mainstream is finally getting it.
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The only thing I dread about legalization is the inevitable corporatization. Whether itâs the tobacco companies looking for new, less socially unacceptable markets, or the young borderline sociopathic libertarian douchenozzles who seem to play such an important role in the âmedicalâ marijuana supply chain growing big, itâs going to be gross. And please god, letâs have the same restrictions on advertising theyâve imposed on tobacco, because, OMFG itâs going to be crass.
Well, that, and all the people who are going to be upset to discover that legalization + heavy taxation = bootlegging, which, in turn, leads to weed industry lobbyists demanding a crackdown on homegrowers producing âdangerousâ unregulated marijuana of unknown strength and content.
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Now. Not everyone has a green thrumb.
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Am reminded of the McDonaldâs ad of a beautiful baby, with its little bitty fingers, holding a french fry.
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Speaking of which, just imagine the winking and nodding ad possibilities for the âno publicity is bad publicityâ fast food chains like Burger King and Hardeeâs/Karlâs Jr.
Though Iâd love to see an ad with the Wendyâs redhead getting baked with friends and rolling out for some triples and Frosties at 2:00 am . . .
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I will never vote for Cuomo. He uses pot and gay marriage to promote himself as a progressive, but economically he is as big of a Wall St. plutocrat apologist as they come.
From a social aspect Iâm glad there is backing for decriminalization. But as others have commented, a lot of support for this is more due to the tax that will come from the âlegalâ market. Assuming that governments will continue to be greedy and arbitrary entities, the legal market will be wildly overtaxed in the name of public health and other straw men. Meanwhile the black market will continue to thrive as a cheaper alternative.
What the hell are you on about? Where itâs legalized for medical purposes, there are a great number of folks growing their own. Make that legal everywhere, and backyard farming will be ubiquitous. It takes skill to grow really good pot, but the plant will grow well in all sorts of conditions. Nobodyâs going to have a monopoly here.
I couldnât agree more. The Federal government needs to remove marijuana from the schedule of prohibited drugs, and simply make it completely legal under federal law. The same goes for agricultural hemp. There is no reason to remove such a useful fiber and seed alternative from the mix of potential agricultural products.
The prohibition is a complete, and very costly failure.
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No brainer.
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Iâm more interested in seeing what happens with industrial hemp, which is a much bigger threat to Big Everything than MJ is.
The entirety of the ban this whole time was protection for the prison-legal-industrial complex, and the artificial-fiber/anti-hemp lobby.
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