Marijuana Repeal Considered In Colorado

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DENVER (AP/CBS4) — Marijuana legalization could be going back to the ballot in Colorado — a prospect that infuriated pot legalization activists Friday.

The proposal for a marijuana ballot measure came as the House started debate Friday evening on bills to regulate and tax pot. One bill would state how pot should be grown and sold, and the other would tax recreational marijuana more than 30 percent.

A draft bill floating around the Capitol late this week suggests that a new ballot question on pot taxes should repeal recreational pot in the state constitution if voters don’t approve 15 percent excise taxes on retail pot and a new 15 percent marijuana sales tax. Those would be in addition to regular state and local sales taxes.

Lawmakers have only a few days left to finish work deciding how to regulate the newly legal drug.

Marijuana activists immediately blasted the proposal as a backhanded effort to repeal the pot vote, in which 55 percent of Coloradans chose to flout federal drug law and declare pot legal in small amounts for adults over 21.

"It’s clear that the intent … is to prevent marijuana from being legal and being regulated and being controlled,” said Mason Tvert, who led last year’s campaign to add recreational pot to the state constitution, which has allowed medical marijuana since 2000.

Sen. Larry Crowder, R-Alamosa, said the whole purpose of legalizing recreational marijuana was to raise money for education and other programs. “So if there’s no money, we shouldn’t have marijuana,” Crowder said.

A volunteer group that has been critical of proposed marijuana regulations, Smart Colorado, praised the effort to get rid of recreational pot without approval of the taxes.

A spokesman for the group, Eric Anderson, said in a statement that marijuana activists “sold the ballot issue to Colorado voters as a way to pay for state priorities like education, but increasingly it’s looking like it could be a net drain on the state budget.”

The marijuana measure approved last year won more votes than President Barack Obama, who carried the state. The pot measure directed lawmakers to come back to the ballot with a tax proposal, with much of the money going to school construction. Because of Colorado’s Byzantine tax laws, the recreational pot taxes can’t be levied until voters again sign off on them
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Sen. Larry Crowder, R-Alamosa, said the whole purpose of legalizing recreational marijuana was to raise money for education and other programs. “So if there’s no money, we shouldn’t have marijuana,” Crowder said.
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That may have been the purpose in your mind, sir, but that is NOT what the people voted on.
They voted on the FREEDOM to use a plant that nature gives us.
 
is a 30% tax fair for cannabis? If they make it too expensive, there will still be a black market.

What is the tax for cigarettes?
 
DynoSpec said:
in canada cigarettes are 10-14$ a pack. almost 60+% tax
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There is no "in Canada", there is in your province. I agree QC is different :) but even with our two combined sales taxes the cheapest brands are around 7,50 a pack. My favs have suddenly become almost out of reach for me, if Export 'A' Blues go over 10 dollars (currently 9,98 a pack), I'll have to stop smoking, cos I'm a poor educated over-qualified bum, like too many people here. Americans don't look up to much to Canada, with 3 severe health problems I have problems getting my extra money from welfare to get my 720 dollars a month and the process is tedious, only for that 120 dollars more than people who really are doing nothing to help their reputation.

That said, guys, I think you guys should also put a lot of effort on reducing the size of your police state, cops here barely care about weed. So, it can be "illegal" in theory but it is really cheap and of extremely good quality most of the time, just see priceofweed.com heh.
 
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