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Cannabis

MADem

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5. The POLICE don't want to enforce those dumb laws.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:02 AM

Feb 2016

What they need to do with these cartel assholes is legalize it and tax it. Limit personal production (the "little home winemaker" exemption) but for these big dealers, make 'em pay the taxes or go to jail.

That's how they got Capone, after all.

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Why US can’t ignore Colorado’s pot ‘experiment [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2016 OP

K&R! TeamPooka Feb 2016 #1

These idiots always try to pretend that CO is the only state. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #2

Evidence keeps rolling in that Colorado is making a bundle, and other states would MADem Feb 2016 #3

Those articles are written by people apparently on a different planet. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #4

The POLICE don't want to enforce those dumb laws. MADem Feb 2016 #5

I really think when it comes to weed, the whole "cartel" noise is a bunch of propaganda BS anyway. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #6

Prohibition is directly responsible for the cartels.. mountain grammy Feb 2016 #7

Why not, it seems this article and everyone else ignores the fact that it's not just Colorado but Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #8