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NY Gov. Cuomo Wants To Legalize Marijuana To Cover Budget Deficit

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Posted by Fred 2020-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well you tax the rich to flight and shut down their play town, how are you going make up the loss? Next opium products or modern chemistry?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-27 06:25|| 2020-10-27 06:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't they try this in California - found out, due to all added taxes, people prefer black market?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 06:46|| 2020-10-27 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 ..they didn't learn from NY's experience with tobacco tax. Thus choking to death some small time dealer for selling singles. As long as there is government there will be an insatiable need for other peoples money and capital cause cutting out the frills that encrusts the legitimate rationale for government and going back to basics is out of the question.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-27 08:02|| 2020-10-27 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 How about 10 more lottery scratch-offs, Grandma Killer? I'm sure there's no regressive tax on the poor that you didn't like.

Ah, but wait! Lottery proceeds "go to the schools". Never mind.

Posted by Clem 2020-10-27 08:04|| 2020-10-27 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Sarcasm aside, weed should be legalized, like, yesterday. And anybody on prison on a non-violent weed charge should be released, like, the day before yesterday.

Posted by Clem 2020-10-27 08:11|| 2020-10-27 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Why stop there? Legalize prostitution and gambling and hire "local revenue coordinators" - AKA Mafia to ensure prompt collections..

Posted by Warthog 2020-10-27 11:18|| 2020-10-27 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 legal weed "seems" like a good idea but the resuting de-motivation to a large part of the population who smoke it bodes ill for society. In India/Nepal its socially unacceptable where its basically been around for thousands of years

Posted by 746 2020-10-27 11:45|| 2020-10-27 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Absolutely. Prostitution and gambling should be legal and, preferably, the state's hands out of it. These anachronisms from days long gone need to go. Peaceful deals without coercion between people should be free to take place.

Posted by Clem 2020-10-27 11:59|| 2020-10-27 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Let me go out on a resinous limb and predict:

Best case: New York taxes and regulates the *bleep* out of the legal market, ensuring that the black market continues and that revenue is only about a third of predicted value.

Worst case:
The above, plus a regulatory structure that favors a few large players and effectively creates a marijuana cartel.

Posted by SteveS 2020-10-27 12:59|| 2020-10-27 12:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Apparently not under consideration - reducing the number of hacks in NY state government. Totally unsurprising.

Posted by Raj 2020-10-27 13:55|| 2020-10-27 13:55|| Front Page Top

#11 ^You expect people to vote for free?!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 14:59|| 2020-10-27 14:59|| Front Page Top

#12 He's gonna need to straight to hallucinogens.
Pot ain't gonna cover it.

Posted by ed in texas 2020-10-27 15:26|| 2020-10-27 15:26|| Front Page Top

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