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First let's get a couple items out of the way. I am medical Cannabis patient. Fortunately I don't have to use dispensaries....although there are none close to my area anyway.
Second. I think to tax cannabis is great, no problem. At least with the tax itself.
Big problem with the fact that the State says that dispensaries are illegal and now they want to tax them. This in itself (dispensaries) is a whole topic, which I will not digress to. What I perceive as a citizen, is that the government is calling the kettle black. How can something illegal be taxed? Is the State in itself now violating Federal laws by taxing. Additionally, the State, even though on their website stating dispensaries are illegal, seems to condone illegal activity by taxing it, sort of like profiteering off of an illegal activity. Many of the lay public view this as oxymoronic and quite possibly illegal in itself.
Another issue pointed out in the mess is that by State law, medicine is not taxable....yet medical cannabis is now considered taxable. Totally against what I understood the State laws to state.
Do you see the complicated mess this creates?
As a legal cannabis patient, I live in a gray area, fearing constantly that the Feds might show at my door for a couple of plants that allow me to carry on a half-way normal life, even though I am unable to work. I realize I have to allow the police into my home any time they want to inspect, I have lost a bunch of my civil rights with that one.
Also one last item, if the State licenses all the dispensaries and the taxation stuff, it essentially puts a huge target on the back of the dispensary such that the Feds can track each and every one and dissipate the law on what seems like any given whim on who gets legal action taken against them.
If dispensaries were legal, I could become a functional member of society again (medically disabled, almost 60, and white male) contributing taxes, social security, and providing for the needs of the community at the same time. It also puts the individual in a position of 1. not filing federal tax and breaking the law; 2. filing federal tax and getting arrested; 3. sorta lying trying to fulfill this oxymoronic approach and getting caught anyway
In Summary, as I do get off the path now and then. How can the State tax something that is Federally illegal and State illegal without becoming criminal themselves. The State is coming across to the general public as a bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo.
Do any of you think this could be discussed at the legislative level such that us poor little guy that just wants to live with a very debilitating condition have some solid guidelines how to go about all this? The way things stand currently is nonsense.
Will let you know of responses.