MPP’s Bruce Mirken on CNBC Power Lunch 07/16/2009
2010 July 30
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Yea you can go to a store and buy rat poison, a gun or a bottle of advil and abuse them to kill yourself or others that very day, but cannabis will never kill anyone.
Wow I can’t believe they actually brought up libertarianism and Milton Friedman, MSNBC is actually decent.
They really didn’t take him seriously at all…
Black Sabbath kicks ass.
unless ur getting the best product available u are paying about twice as much as anyone i know charges
people already do what u do with alcohol, supplying family and friends with their yield, but the market would be big enough that it wont really matter because there aren’t enough people like u.
whats insane is going to jail for years at a time for smoking it.
i would love to pay a 50$ tax on it. just so i would not have to worry about going to jail for smoking it.
and i’m sure there is alot of other pple who feel the same way.
50 bucks is not alot of money if you add up the total amount of money one pays in legal fee’s when you get busted for it
And soon the world will love you sweetleaf.
Yeah, just think, then they could be right there to stop any real crimes, huh? It would make this a better country.
What the hell does the rest of the world care about what I want to smoke? They don’t care about me now! They never did. How much harm could it be? Wouldn’t the harm already be present? It has been here for ever and it was legal before! Whereas every other drug is responsible for a large number of deaths here in America. Think of all the crime that wouldn’t happen! Dumbfucks!
The whole point is that if we want it legal, we may very well NEED to convince everyone else that we’ll make it worth their while.
Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot of incentive for politicians to legalize cannabis. Especially considering the MASSIVE changes we’d see in police priorities, the prison industry, and arguably the pharmaceutical industry.
A lot of jobs would be created, but many would also be lost.
Q: Who wants to keep cannabis illegal?
A: Police Departments and Prisons.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you.
The price should be $10-25.
However, tax incentive makes the idea of legalization more palatable to prohibitionists.
The market will determine the true value of the product once the risk factor is taken out of the mix. The price will initially stay high and will go lower as more producers open up shop. Companies will compete, production will go up, demand will go down and steady back out again… just like any “new” product on the *legal* market.
If it was legalized there wouldn’t be a black market, only a grey one, and more than likely there would be a huge market in tax-free weed.
Nothing else is taxed at that level. At best you’d see $65-90/ounce of premium bud which isn’t too far off the current illegal market. That price is simply way too high for an easy to grow plant in a legal market. $10-25 would be much more reasonable.
Not really. The idea is that when a legal market is created, the price will drop since there’s not a legal risk hanging around and artificially inflating the price anymore. So let’s say, the cost per ounce drops by 50% and then they add a 50 dollar tax per ounce. They’d still be undercutting the illegal market, and you’d still be getting a discount, hence your incentive to buy it legally. Everybody wins.
$50/ounce tax? What? That’s insane
fo real!! lmao look at his eyes
Im moving to Cali
As will the booming hemp farms in the southern states.
People in industries like lumber or fuel may lose their jobs, but the coffee shops will gladly hire them.
yea and thered be a coffie shop every mile that wuld sell weed to its customers. thats alot of small buisnesses.
I agree.
I would only add that if California were the 1st to legalize, regulate and tax Cannabis, people from other areas would choose to live there.
That fresh demand for homes in a sagging real estate market would be of additional benefit to the entire economy there.
Legalize it, tax it, and keep unnecessary “criminals” out of jail.
Bruce Merkin is baked as shit
I for one would choose to pay a little extra cash so I can help the state. LEGALIZE IT
What a bitch…