Will you pay your taxes on legalized weed?

[usual suspect]

Just wondering if they legalise weed and it went to say $15.00 a 1/4 ounce but they put a 15.00 tax on it would you buy? Now without saying it would need to be something like hash cross with g13 or a little ol skunk #1 miked in. Give me indica or give me death.

usual suspect Reviewed by usual suspect on 08-16-2007. Will you pay your taxes on legalized weed? Just wondering if they legalise weed and it went to say $15.00 a 1/4 ounce but they put a 15.00 tax on it would you buy? Now without saying it would need to be something like hash cross with g13 or a little ol skunk #1 miked in. Give me indica or give me death.:) Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

Inability to pay taxes on any profits made from cultivation of cannabis for bud or the clone market is one of the things that further marginalizes growers, and puts us in danger of prosecution for tax evasion.

Yes. Please legalize and tax the cannabis industry. I will willingly step up and pay my income tax, just as I do for my day job.

[ganjzilla]

yeah i agree with stinkyattic, of course these taxes need to be paid, id much rather be able to legally smoke and not have to worry bout it and pay a lil tax then the other option...and chances are if it were legal prices would drop to the point evn with a tax itll be much cheaper than what street prices are

[usual suspect]

So now the question becomes: If all of us here actualy smoked this "weed" just by using the "mans" own numbers (1 in 4) we could extrapolate the amount of tax revenue created, never mind the fact that more peopl would toke if they didnt have to worry about the poke. So i guess the next question is can we get a consensus from membership of how much weed would u smoke IF it were legal? Some jobs dont allow you to be stoned all day long every day you need o be able to function. Give me indica or give me death.

[Mississippi Steve]

I would pay my taxes in a heartbeat... I kind of have to....I get audited every 3 years whether I need it or not....so much for being a sole propriator business owner.

Keep in mind that when its legalized, that the tobacco companies are already geared up to mass production, complete with packaging, labeling, advertising, etc. All they need is the law passed.

Personally, when its legalized, we won't have to grow, and the street prices won't be able to compete with $20 for a pack of joints.

[usual suspect]

cONSIDER THIS HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD THE DRUG COMPANIES LOSE BY PEOPLE WHO LIGHT UP A COUPLE TIMES A DAY AND DECIDE HEY I DONT NEED MY PROZAC ANYMORE. sO THIS BRINGS ANOTHER QUESTION: HOW MANY "ILLNESSES" CAN YOU THINK OF THAT POT COULD POSSIBLY TAKE CARE OF? lIST THEM IF YOU CAN!!!

[usual suspect]

According to gov figs the ratio of 1 out of every 4 us citizens smoke weed so lets do the math:
302,629,020 people---us census bureau
times 25% equals==75,657,255 people smoking weed,ok then multiply by 4qrtrs a month(my estimate)==302,629,020 qrtrs a month smoked times 15. dollars per qrtr==4,539,435,300.00 dollars per monthtimes 12== so we could conceivably add an extra 54,473,223,600.00 dollars to the us economy!!!!! Talk about FLOWER POWER!! cigs would go out of vouge and weed would spread like well weeds.

[mamma puffpuff420]

no
im not paying any tax on weed
marijuana is concidered medication
i dont pay tax's on my pain med's or anyother kind of med's i take
sorry,but it's just not rite in my book's

[Paulkishi]

I would definately pay taxes on weed to smoke it legally.

As for hypothetic terms, there would definately be an age requirement, probably 18 or 21, but still it would be sweet. And for the minors, if ya can get somebody to buy you alcohol, then you can find someone to buy your weed.

[Paulkishi]

According to gov figs the ratio of 1 out of every 4 us citizens smoke weed so lets do the math:
302,629,020 people---us census bureau
times 25% equals==75,657,255 people smoking weed,ok then multiply by 4qrtrs a month(my estimate)==302,629,020 qrtrs a month smoked times 15. dollars per qrtr==4,539,435,300.00 dollars per monthtimes 12== so we could conceivably add an extra 54,473,223,600.00 dollars to the us economy!!!!! Talk about FLOWER POWER!! cigs would go out of vouge and weed would spread like well weeds.

Sorry about the double post.

That is some good thinking you got there. However, I don't think cigarettes would go out of "vogue". Not trying to be a prick or anything, but a hell of a lot of people smoke cigarettes, I even like smoking a cigarette immediately after smoking weed. Just stating that, even though now I realize there is no point arguing about this lol.