Pot in Every Chicken?
Tuesday, 11/17/2009 - 11:30 am by Lynn Parramore | 3 Comments
When it comes to pot policy, Colorado is sending smoke signals to the rest of the country. This just in from Denver, the home of ND20 bloggger Marshall Auerback. He writes:
“Well, it’s starting. I just heard today on NPR that the state of Colorado is going to tax medicinal marijuana to rescue the state’s deteriorating fiscal position. This highlights even more the absolute necessity of establishing revenue sharing from the Federal government to the states. We are one stage closer to the inversion of FDR’s ‘A chicken in every pot’ with ‘pot in every chicken’.”
The whole thing certainly seems a little suspect. It’s also bad news for our friends with, a-hem, chronic medical conditions…
Funny, and yes there are worries about the government taxing it. Legalizing marijuana for medical use may prompt pharmaceutical corporations to develop their version of it, and then get the FDA to ban all but the pill form and they’ll have yet another captive market.
Posted by Zach P | November 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
So it has come to that, has it? Groan.
Posted by FERI | November 17th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Oh, I bet you it will. And they may as well invoke concerns over purity, safety, contamination, etc. to do it.
Posted by Zach P | November 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm