Well, who doesn’t want those?
“We’re
collapsing! We’re collapsing!” cry the wicked marijuana sellers of the west. “The
government must do something!”
The
tax-paying, legal sellers do have a point. Up to a point.
Illegal
dealers are undercutting the legals, and do not pay taxes. Hmm. Sort of like
illegals who sneak across the border and who don’t pay taxes?
Legal dealers
admit illegal dealer prices “are far lower
and sales are double or triple the legal business.”
But shouldn’t state government tax people
be able to find the illegal dealers? You’re doing two or three times the business
of the legals, someone should notice.
“The industry leaders asked
for an immediate lifting of the cultivation tax placed on growers, a three-year
holiday from the excise tax and an expansion of retail shops throughout much of
the state. It’s estimated that about two-thirds of California cities remain
without dispensaries, since it’s up to local governments to authorize sales and
production.
“’The opportunity to create a robust legal market has been
squandered as a result of excessive taxation,’ the letter said. ‘Seventy-five
percent of cannabis in California is consumed in the illicit market and is
untested and unsafe.’”
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