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I can't really abide letting companies(which is people but with money and capital) grow a plant I'm not allowed to grow. That just feels like flexing control of prices and picking who gets it.
The tax bit is a totally fair concern, and is the proper avenue of "who gets it?" I should think the taxes be directly relevant to the subject, so research funding and addiction therapy seems appropriate. I would like to see what people are doing explicitly for fun fund things that people in need should be getting. That'd be better funding for homeless programs, grocery subsidizing(broad category, no specific industry), and healthcare.
I for one would buy up lots of weed to know I'm feeling good for contributing to those things to get what I like.
I gotta say, I've never heard of flower with over 50% THC or an extract that wasn't specifically trying to be 100%. It's like they actually don't know what they're talking about.
Narrator: "They don't."
If nothing is sold, what is there to tax?
Property is a huge one that should be taxed more. If you own property, you're preventing other people from utilizing it, so it should be taxed in proportion to its value yearly. If you don't utilize it maximally, the cost of taxes will outweigh its ownership and you'll be pushed to sell it to someone who will utilize it better (or you just eat the cost). It's drive down hoarding of houses and leaving apartments unfilled, which would drive down the cost as landlords attempt to fill them maximally.
Im not sure high base property tax rates are the best solution to corporate ownership of single family homes.
A progressive tax based on number of residential properties owned makes more sense to me.
100% tax on home 1 125% on home 2 150% on home 3 200% on home 4 250% on home 5
And if they still try to arbitrage the market, double the tax for unoccupied homes.
just make it impossible to profit after a point.
Land value tax is progressive already. It's also very efficient with no real way to create loopholes. A progressive tax based on number of owned properties would just create shell companies and putting properties under another name. I don't disagree with increasing tax on unoccupied residences, but I don't think that is appropriate with a LVT, as it just adds complication. You're taxed based on value, which is correlated to the value others think they could extract from the same land. Empty property could be utilized, so the value doesn't care if it's empty and will be taxed appropriately regardless.
A LVT also works for farmland and other land to ensure maximum utility. Also, assuming land shouldn't belong to anyone (which why should it. They didn't create it?) it appropriately returns value to the public for occupied land.
I disagree, there deffo should be some licensing on who exactly is able to produce mind altering substances just to guarantee the the brew is clean.
Guess you're against homebrew beer, wine, and meade too?
While you're at at, you should also propose bans on privately grown tobacco and coffee too.
These are all mind altering substances.
Sugar better be regulated as well. That's most people's first mind altering substance.
You're saying all that as if it's ridiculous to control who's allowed to grow that shit even just for themselves
Yes, those are all mind altering substances, so you shouldn't be able to just grow it without being certified to be following the guidelines, if only because even if I can trust you personally to be the town buzzkill who never shares their stash, I can't count on the hempton family who swear that the greenhouse they just built that grows enough for twenty is just to help with dad's knee.
Shouldn't be allowed to sell it? Sure. Not allowed to grow? You're delusional if you think that's gonna work. It's just going to cause the people who can afford to, to move to states that allow you to grow, and those that can't just get to have their lives destroyed for doing something that is perfectly legal in other states.
Prohibition Never Works.
Only if they're selling it.
Nah, homebrew chemistry can be some dangerous shit even without the intent to get high off it.
Not everyone's that one Rick that just wants to chemically induce a batch of fresh brownies.
Anything is dangerous shit with enough of an idiot at the helm.
Drugs are more regulated than guns in the US for fuck's sake. That there should be enough.
I bet the mental gymnastics routine to justify that is straight tens.
Unless I imagined the record breaking 38 mass killings this year I'm gonna have to take that to mean you think they're barely regulated at all.