America's $4.5 billion legal weed market surpasses these massive consumer markets

Well, I don’t drink any more, so no tequila for me, though I’d have a go at the worm. And no frozen GSCs; I’ve already broken a tooth on a frozen Samoa, years ago.

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How about marijuana? Pot? Ganga? Smoke? Green? Stuff? Mother Nature’s Bounty? Shit?

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The problem, of course, is that the idiots in charge hate the idea of making money to balance their budgets. So the fact that legal weed represents a huge opportunity for making tons of money through taxes, has no traction with them. Sadly.

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When they list 4.5 billion, do they include the taxes in that figure?

It’s my understanding marijuana is taxed at a much higher rate than alcohol, so more sales might not mean they’re selling more weed than tequila.

(Or maybe I just am not aware of the true level of booze tax since we don’t disclose it separate from the price like dispensary weed)

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I wondered a while ago who uses weed the most per capita, since surely the Dutch have earned their reputation.

Or even Canada, right?

Nope. It’s the USA.

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Yep, that’s been tried.


As I recall, the organization put its foot down on that. Because.

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I blame fictional Cheech & Chong for making the whole " weed, must make munchie joke" thing.

For me cannabis is all about creativity (think of real life Sir Paul McCartney).

Since legalization occurred in the Pacific Northwest my consumption of pens, paper, brushes, paint and various other art supplies has gone way up. No way to get around it cannabis gets the creative juices flowing.

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I know it’s not crazy fast, but the liberals put forward a bill about a year and a half after being elected to office, and if all goes well it could get passed july of 2018.

That’s not blazing fast, but it’s under three years from election to passage (if all goes well) which I’m pretty happy about. I think in terms of relatively major legislation, that’s not terrible

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Not surprised. The Dutch aren’t really as pro-pot as we Americans think they are, just because they don’t have draconian drug laws like we do.

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I would argue that it breaks down barriers to creativity, rather than makes you more creative, but take that with a grain of salt.

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Big numbers like these aren’t all cause for celebration. Money like that attracts powerfully venal people. We don’t want to end up with a corrupting oligopoly like Big Tobacco.

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Paul McCartney on drugs

Paul McCartney not on drugs

Need I say more?

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Let’s take this all the way and sell official Girl Scout edibles. Cannabis-infused Thin Mints.

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good bye diet…

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Call me old-fashioned, but I still like “grass”.

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Quite. Something that isn’t there won’t magically materialize out of nowhere. Expanding your mind will unlock stuff you were not aware of. Whether you do that by drugs (and YMMV what does or doesn’t count as a drug) or by other means is up to you.

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I have found a hole in your argument. Those both suck.

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It’s not my argument, it’s Mark Thomas’s.

I can’t remember which episode of Product the joke was was from, I think it was the one where someone with MS smokes a “joint” in a meeting with Jack Straw (then Home Secretary). Afterwards it turned out to not be cannabis but Jack Straw had left the room and told the police to go in and arrest him.

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You didn’t hear about the one enterprising Girl Scout in the SF Bay area who did exactly that? There was an article about sometime in the last year or two, I think.

ETA:

I see someone else already mentioned it.

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You are SO close. One lady at work (of a certain age) once told us as she was leaving for the day, “Back to my wine and popcorn.”

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