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TB Gardens

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This was originally posted in mass/RI/CT thread by NE_Grower978. Looked around & didn't see it up anywhere so I'm doin it.

http://www.capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=28792501


"Bill to Regulate and Tax Marijuana Introduced in Massachusetts Legislature
Tell Your Representative to Support HB 1371
Four House lawmakers have introduced legislation that seeks to legalize and regulate the "production, distribution, and sale" of marijuana to adults. As introduced, House Bill 1371 seeks to regulate the commercial production and distribution of marijuana for adults over 21 years of age. This measure would impose licensing requirements and excise taxes on the commercial, for-profit retail sale of cannabis. The measure has been referred to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary.

Adults who possess or grow marijuana for personal use, or who share cannabis with other adults, would not be subject to taxation under the law.

House Bill 1371 proposes to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to enact a rational public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana. Please show your support for this measure by contacting your state elected officials and urging them to support these common sense proposals. For your convenience, a pre-written letter will be e-mailed to your state senator when you enter your contact information below.

For more information about this measure, please visit the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition/NORML here."
 
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TribalSeeds

I would love to see how Mitt would pull that back and make it seem like that was a great idea for his state, but how at a federal level its socialism!
 
supermanlives

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i lived in ma and taxes were horrrible. this wont go well . ma will soon have the most expensive weed in the country. lol and mitt is an ahole
 
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if this goes.. iits not medical.. just basicly legalizing and taxing it !!
 
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vwgtiron

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everyone I know will not vote for this. No way are they going to pay the government a penny. Not to mention, no illegal grower wants legalization, to much of a market price drop.
 
Harry Gypsna

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Sounds fair enough to me... Personal use and non commercial sharing not being affected other than you wont get busted by the state. This is a model for real collectives, groups of people sharing the bills and sharing the green, as opposed to the "Collectives" which generally consist of some able-bodied person collecting up med recs, growing warehouses and giving the poor mugs whose recs they use as cover, an ounce a month-charging full price for any more and selling the rest to the black market and buying houses off the backs of sick people = lame.
Why the hell shouldn't commercial growers be paying taxes...it is a business, the poor sap pushing a cart and selling hotdogs has to stump up and so does the waitress who brings you your pancakes in a diner, so why not commercial growers who are making big money from it.
I'm dreaming of the day when the farmers grow the weed and it costs the same as cabbages.(Yeah I know-keep dreaming-I'm with the Skunkman on this one though)
There is no real reason for the ridiculous prices, it is all based on prohibition, and people choosing to reject a sensible law, in order to keep making easy money-knowing this will mean the continued imprisonment of decent and often sick people for possessing plants--well these people deserve any LEO action that comes against them..
It will be interesting to see, if this passes, whether or not the state authorities will cooperate with the DEA, giving info and assisting on busts. They day your local plod has a shootout with the feds to uphold state law is the day when the weed is free in America.
 
Agaricus

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I haven't read the entire proposal but it sure sounds a lot better than the efforts in other states. Matter of fact it sounds damn good to me.
 
TB Gardens

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"Massachusetts will not regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol in 2012

This year Massachusetts joined a growing list of states that have considered legislation to remove penalties for marijuana possession and regulate the production and sale of marijuana. Rep. Ellen Story introduced HB 1371, a bill designed to strip power and money from illegal marijuana syndicates by allowing legitimate businesses to produce and sell marijuana to adults over 21. Breaking the connection between marijuana and the criminal underworld would keep Massachusetts’ children safer and allow the state to realize taxes on a currently unregulated market worth millions. On March 6, the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony on the bill, but the bill did not advance."

http://www.mpp.org/states/massachusetts/
 
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datruth

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weed as cheap as cabbages? did sam say that? wow that would be cool. prob cause alot of folks to go broke tho. but as a consumer i am all for it. thats rare for someone in the buisness to say that,damn rare.
 
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ItsTopShelf

ya lets legalize it and then fucking put people like me that depend on my crops to live out in the streets.. sweet guys ya legalize it. ! ya right dude.. hahah keep it illegal keep prices at 3 even a zip no matter what for good indoors.. fuck if thats the case the only way to do it is to grow for personal use and fuck sellin ..
 
Arthritis_sucks

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ItsTopShelf said:
ya lets legalize it and then fucking put people like me that depend on my crops to live out in the streets.. sweet guys ya legalize it. ! ya right dude.. hahah keep it illegal keep prices at 3 even a zip no matter what for good indoors.. fuck if thats the case the only way to do it is to grow for personal use and fuck sellin ..
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LMFAO .....need some cheese with that wine.
 
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