Pot town: Decker, MT

[gouch]

I don't know why anyone would think pot taxes would solve any budgetary problems in a state. Here in Oregon the pot tax revenue for the state is around 147 million dollars. Pretty good but compared to the 330 million dollars the cigarette tax brings in, it's pretty modest. The two combined don't even reach the 630 million dollars alcohol taxes bring in.

When you look at the 157 billion dollar state budget the three combined add up to less than 1% of the revenue.

Why do they call them dispensaries anyway? It made sense when it was only for medical uses but now they should come up with something a little more clever, like pot shop, head shop or maybe Joint Joint. Dispensaries are a place sick people go.

 

[Gellar]

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Is he saying that TU wants to move that money to the general fund because it’s easier to pay for “conservation” on private stretches of blue ribbon trout stream that is accessed by wealthy individuals? And also that members of the TU national organization are elitists belonging to those private clubs?

 

[Gellar]

I don't know why anyone would think pot taxes would solve any budgetary problems in a state. Here in Oregon the pot tax revenue for the state is around 147 million dollars. Pretty good but compared to the 330 million dollars the cigarette tax brings in, it's pretty modest. The two combined don't even reach the 630 million dollars alcohol taxes bring in.

When you look at the 157 billion dollar state budget the three combined add up to less than 1% of the revenue.

Why do they call them dispensaries anyway? It made sense when it was only for medical uses but now they should come up with something a little more clever, like pot shop, head shop or maybe Joint Joint. Dispensaries are a place sick people go.

i don’t think the intention is ever to fund the entire state budget with lotteries or taxes on marijuana but to offset expenses for departments that the current budget cannot support without increasing other taxes. The problem occurs when jealous politicians, department heads and large corporations see how big the pie is and they haven’t gotten their piece.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

I drive through a Reservation in upstate New York on my way to my lease. We counted 37 dispensaries on the main street. Several offer a drive- through window!!

Iroquois have been profiting off the whitey for hundreds of years. Savvy natives.

 

[WyoCoalMiner]

It blows my mind that weed isn't socially/legally acceptable in places where booze is sold in every corner store, gas station, Walmart, grocery store, etc.

I think it is socially acceptable damn near everywhere. Was tailgating in Laramie at a UW game last month and the use of it was obvious to anyone with a nose. No one cared. Was in a bar in a Wyoming town of 1,200 on Sunday with an unusually high number of Packers fans. Every time a group stepped out to smoke, it was clear what they were smoking when the re-entered. No one cared.

 

[jimh406]

If I remember correctly, Montana voted to allow marijuana sales to fund natural resources? How is that working?

I don’t do pot, and don’t care. I doubt it’s worse than alcohol.

I think it’s a shame that you can be in a border state and break a law.

 

[SaskHunter]

I think it is socially acceptable damn near everywhere. Was tailgating in Laramie at a UW game last month and the use of it was obvious to anyone with a nose. No one cared. Was in a bar in a Wyoming town of 1,200 on Sunday with an unusually high number of Packers fans. Every time a group stepped out to smoke, it was clear what they were smoking when the re-entered. No one cared.

Someone cared enough to start a thread about pot shops. My point is, there are plenty of people who indulge... a lot... in alcohol, who oppose weed. I meet people like that here all the time and pot's been legal for years here.