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warren_stupidity t1_ixlx38s wrote

Fine, he probably will, but the point is that NH isn’t holding out for retail pot at state stores, some politicians keep blocking legalization, for whatever reason they have. Sununu, and Hassan before him, are just stuck in Drug War idiocy.

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warren_stupidity t1_ixhii40 wrote

Yeah well I think they are starting to realize that a lot of revenue is going south and the feds aren't going to legalize it anytime soon.

Anyway this bill explicitly enables a private market for retail pot.

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warren_stupidity t1_ixhi58c wrote

The proposed legislation explicitly does not put it under the liquor control board, and instead enables private retail and production facilities:

"If adopted, the law would create a private marketplace for cannabis sales and focus on low taxation. Marijuana would be taxed at the current meals-and-rooms tax rate of 8.5 percent, with proceeds going toward unmet pension obligations across the state and drug education and prevention, according to Egan."

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warren_stupidity t1_ivya6g6 wrote

"That month, a National Safety Council survey found no appreciable change in the number of early-morning fatalities between January 1973 and January 1974. And a Reuters report said the United States had used about 2 percent less energy because of the change." (paywalled WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/18/daylight-saving-seventies-history/)

The problem is and was media driven panic.

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warren_stupidity t1_ivw3kiq wrote

I hear this exclusively from people trying to rationalize their support for republicans despite the fact that their party opposes legalization. It’s nonsense. Grocery store beer has an ‘excise tax’. Just set up, oh I don’t know, a state pot stamp that every retail operation has to purchase for every kilogram of pot or pot equivalent (gummies etc) sold. There are always ways to get things done if you actually want to do them.

  • the original federal pot laws prosecuted people for failure to purchase marijuana tax stamps.
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warren_stupidity t1_iuihy6d wrote

OK. But none of that happened here. In fact it was the event organization itself that cancelled the event. No assaults occurred, no protest happened. It wasn't even Dartmouth that cancelled. These snowflakes decided that there was more to be gained by playing the victim than by presenting their shitty case for bigotry.

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