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2019-12-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

h/t Instapundit
Evanston aldermen on Monday approved directing all sales tax revenue collected from recreational marijuana purchases to a fund that will establish a local reparations program.

Officials say the program will help the city’s black population stay in Evanston while also providing training for jobs and other benefits.

"We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston," said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, 5th Ward, who proposed the reparations bill.

While Evanston officials have voted to permit, tax and appropriate money from recreational marijuana sales, many other suburbs have voted not to allow recreational marijuana dispensaries to open when the businesses become legal next year under state law.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 01:15|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 ...And I'll bet ya dollars to doobies that the nice people in Evanston have already assumed that money will be there and made plans accordingly, only to be gobsmacked when it doesn't show up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-02 04:27|| 2019-12-02 04:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Do you take Zimbabwe dollars?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 04:29|| 2019-12-02 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 So it funds apartheid?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-02 04:52|| 2019-12-02 04:52|| Front Page Top

#4 So the move for legalizing psychoactive substances was always a ploy to allow blacks to earn from the one thing they can do right. Sell drugs.

WTF is this ? State sponsored wakandan cartels ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-02 06:50|| 2019-12-02 06:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Same reason some people in NY prefer 'imported' cigarettes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-02 07:25|| 2019-12-02 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 With all the proposed taxes, the illegal stuff will be cheaper.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-02 11:04|| 2019-12-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 What Mullah Richard said. Legal marijuana isn't working in California because the illegal stuff is cheaper. The stuff can be grown almost anywhere. If you know what you're doing you can grow it in a closet inside your house. How can the government ever hope to tax it? Plus, graft.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-02 11:23|| 2019-12-02 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Legal is a buzzkill

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-02 13:16|| 2019-12-02 13:16|| Front Page Top

#9
#7 What Mullah Richard said. Legal marijuana isn't working in California because the illegal stuff is cheaper. The stuff can be grown almost anywhere. If you know what you're doing you can grow it in a closet inside your house. How can the government ever hope to tax it? Plus, graft.

Exactly - and the respective governments are going to get that money if it's the last thing they do, so look for CA in particular to come up with some kind of packaging that will be required for legal weed, and God help you if you can't show that package.

Or put another way - if you think that the War on Drugs was bad before, wait till you see how ugly it gets now that it's legal.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-02 17:07|| 2019-12-02 17:07|| Front Page Top

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