Thread: LAS VEGAS HAS STRIPPERS, SHOWS AND NOW LEGAL WEED

Originally Posted by MW

Some things are just more important than greed and money!

Yes, that's true, and it's called: FREEDOM.

Originally Posted by MW

Marijuana-related deaths, suspensions & problems spike in Colorado – report
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https://www.rt.com/usa/316148-mariju...njuries-study/

Interesting source, rt.com

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The full report mentioned in the article is @ http://www.rmhidta.org/html/August%2...e%20Impact.pdf

166 pages. Dated 2014

"The report was carried out by the federal government’s Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a program that assists federal, state and local and tribal law enforcement in critical drug-trafficking regions."

Nevada recreational marijuana dispensaries can't keep up with demand

Jenny Kane, jkane@rgj.com 9:59 p.m. MT July 7, 2017

Supurb, a Tempe-based company, harnesses the convenience utilized by services like Uber and Postmates to provide medical-marijuana delivery from dispensaries to patients. It’s the first online platform in Arizona to do this.Wochit


(Photo: Jason Bean/RGJ)

Nevada dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana are running out of pot less than a week after the legal market came to life, according to the state Department of Taxation.

On Friday, taxation officials announced that Gov. Brian Sandoval had endorsed the department's "statement of emergency," allowing state officials to consider adopting an emergency marijuana regulation that could alleviate the shortage.

The Nevada Tax Commission will vote on the regulation on Thursday.

Photos: Day 1 of recreational marijuana in Reno
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Opening day of legal recreational marijuana sales in Reno on July 1, 2017. JASON BEAN/RGJ, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL-USA TODAY N

"Based on reports of adult-use marijuana sales already far exceeding the industry’s expectations at the state’s 47 licensed retail marijuana stores, and the reality that many stores are running out of inventory, the Department must address the lack of distributors immediately. Some establishments report the need for delivery within the next several days," said department spokeswoman Stephanie Klapstein in an email.

The regulation would allow the department to consider a larger pool of applicants for distribution licenses, licenses that permit the transport of recreational marijuana from where the cultivation and packaging facilities to the dispensaries.

As the state law legalizing recreational marijuana was passed in November, wholesale alcohol distributors were promised exclusive rights to transport wholesale marijuana for the first 18 months of legal sales.

The department, however, has run into multiple roadblocks in reviewing the seven applications that they have received as of Friday.

"We continue to work with the liquor wholesalers who have applied for distribution licenses, but most don’t yet meet the requirements that would allow us to license them. Even as we attempted to schedule the final facility inspection for one of the applicants this week, they told us their facility was not ready and declined the inspection. As of mid-day Friday, not one distribution license has been issued," Klapstein said.

A statement from Department Executive Director Deonne Contine noted that the primary issues were incomplete applications and zoning issues.

The department tried to address the issue earlier this year by opening the application process up to the businesses that have been transporting medical marijuana up to this point, but an 11th hour court battle ended in an order only to accept applications from wholesale alcohol distributors.

Now that any marijuana dispensary licensed to sell recreational marijuana must receive all product -- both recreational and medical -- from a distributor licensed to transport recreational marijuana, many of them are stuck with dwindling supply.

"The business owners in this industry have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build facilities across the state. They have hired and trained thousands of additional employees to meet the demands of the market. Unless the issue with distributor licensing is resolved quickly, the inability to deliver product to retail stores will result in many of these people losing their jobs and will bring this nascent market to a grinding halt. A halt in this market will lead to a hole in the state’s school budget," Klapstein said.

While the department does not plan to release any numbers on state tax revenue from the industry un til late September, the Nevada Dispensary Association earlier this week estimated that dispensaries made about $3 million in sales and the state made about $1 million in tax revenue between Saturday and Tuesday.

Revenue collected from the 15 percent cultivation tax goes toward schools, while the 10 percent sales tax revenue goes toward the state's rainy day fund, which can be used for any number of expenditures.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...and/461580001/

"Revenue collected from the 15 percent cultivation tax goes toward schools, while the 10 percent sales tax revenue goes toward the state's rainy day fund, which can be used for any number of expenditures."

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100% of the revenue should go to REHAB, Narcon, drug related crime, drug related hospital costs, Ambulance, law enforcement and drug related incarceration.

These States think they are going to get RICH off selling weed...no they are NOT. Just another slush fund for these bandits in office!

NOT become an additional expense to taxpayers!

How ironic that most states legalizing recreational pot also have a bad habit of supporting illegal immigrants. Could it be that some of the pot proceeds will aid in countering expenditures used to aid in shielding or assisting illegals?

States that have legalized pot: Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, as well as the federal district of Washington, D.C.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, as of March 2017, California and Colorado are sanctuary states.

States that issue driver's licenses to illegals: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C. (federal district).

States offering in-state tuition to illegals: California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington. Additionally, California and Washington offer state financial aid to illegals.

Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana nationwide

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana nationwide

Zero chance of passage.

Sessions promises of pot crackdown up in smoke

Why is marijuana a Schedule 1 drug - up there with heroin?

Yes, I think that piece about CO is a lot of hype. A bit of 'Reefer Madness'.

The only bad thing I heard about marijuana, while in CO, was the state brought in a lot more revenue from marijuana than they expected and were having to do some work to decide where it should go.

Soon, I hope, states will allow hemp to be grown one again, as well.

Pharmaceuticals don't want marijuana legalized.