Thousands of Marijuana Plants Burned in Pursat, Cambodia

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Samouth wrote: Tue May 05, 2015 1:37 pm The government should legalize smoking week as even though it is illegal, people still manage to grow and smoke it anywhere. Then we can put higher tax on weed and no doubt, it will help increase country income.
Impossible.

You can grow weed in your house...tobacco is a very different prospect, and because it demands more skill, it is easier to regulate.

It would be almost impossible to tax weed, simply because any fool can grow it surreptitiously...hence the nickname 'weed'.
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vladimir wrote: Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:05 pm
Samouth wrote: Tue May 05, 2015 1:37 pm The government should legalize smoking week as even though it is illegal, people still manage to grow and smoke it anywhere. Then we can put higher tax on weed and no doubt, it will help increase country income.
Impossible.

You can grow weed in your house...tobacco is a very different prospect, and because it demands more skill, it is easier to regulate.

It would be almost impossible to tax weed, simply because any fool can grow it surreptitiously...hence the nickname 'weed'.
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Every state in the us that they legalized it now sees huge rewards in Tax revenue and each state had people growing it illegally before
26 states and the District of Columbia hadve legalized medical marijuana, while Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and Washington, D.C., had legalized recreational use of the drug.
In Colorado in 2014 they pulled in $76M in marijuana taxes :thumb: :thumb:
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Yes, Richard, but you are forgetting a few small things:

1. Murikans generally respect/fear the law

2. The tax collection system in Murika is highly-organised, efficient theft depends on it.

3. The likelihood of being caught is high, therefore they will pay for legal/taxable weed, which is not much cheaper (maybe more expensive than?) tobacco.

4. Cambodia has a very flexible tax/law enforcement interface, mien loi mien happiness.

My point being...one cannot compare the two wrt systemic enforcement/motivation to offenders
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Marijuana is more of a medical thing, it has legitimate use towards certain medical issues and conditions. Otherwise, the recreational standpoint is just high people wants not to get in trouble.
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BUT if the powers that be set up shops in major cites ( or sold the licenses to......) and grew it and than legally sold it, they could tax the shops easily.
same as taxing any shop .

Its a lot more ( average of $15-30/gram thru dispensaries, on the darknet about $25-40/gram) not sure what cigs are in the states as dont smoke that bad shit but sure they are cheaper. Nowadays its average to have a thc content of 20-35% ,,,strong stuff

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Marijuana is more of a medical thing, it has legitimate use towards certain medical issues and conditions. Otherwise, the recreational standpoint is just high people wants not to get in trouble.
Be wiling to bet $$ to donuts a LOT more people use it recreationally than for medical purposes. :beer3:
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American drug abuse is at a new high. Marijuana is low priority right now for law enforcement. The heroin epidemic and meth epidemic are far out of control. Even a bigger problem is the pharmaceutical issues, most people are on so many different pills that they cannot keep track of their own medications.
I take zero medications, no pills, no illegal drugs. My own vice is beer. I drink a lot of it.
But beer is legal, so I'll have another before bed.
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