so, there's going to be a liberty-minded candidate opposing mary fallin in the republican primary.
he supports full decriminalization.
https://m.facebook.com/DaxEwbank
he supports full decriminalization.
https://m.facebook.com/DaxEwbank
They should've made their site URL "www.okiesforsmokie.com"
If going through the massive expenditure (likely $2-$3/signature would need to be raised on average to be expended on professional petitioners and marketing - enough to run a competitive gubernatorial candidate) of an initiative for an amendment to the state constitution, why not model this after Colorado's amendment, or even perhaps similar to Oklahoma's tobacco growing laws?
I personally cannot support this initiative because it further limits freedom. It also places a tax for medical access to marijuana in addition to the marijuana tax that is already on the books. It also places an undue financial burden on those who those who would like to grow, transport, or dispense marijuana. The proposed regulations on growers' reporting is also unreasonably restrictive. By restricting who can have involvement in a marijuana-related business within Oklahoma to only residents of the state of Oklahoma, this severely limits access to capital and other business resources.
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Colorado legalized marijuana tax revs ahead of expectations: Moody's
(Reuters) - Colorado, the first state to tax legalized recreational marijuana sales, expects to bring in an estimated $98 million in revenue this year, exceeding the state's original expectations by 40 percent.
The state began levying sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana on January 1, 2014. Moody's Investors Service, in a report released Friday, said legal sales in Colorado will reduce the size of the black market and revenue from legal sales will mean more tax payments flowing into state coffers.
The funds are slated for treatment, school construction and deterring young people from using the drug. School districts will likely get $40 million, or nearly 30 percent, of the projected $134 million in total marijuana tax revenues. New revenues will only make up 1.4 percent of the state's available general fund.
"There's been a lot of buzz around legalization," said Andrea Unsworth, a Moody's analyst. But she cautioned that tax revenues were "still a very small fraction of the state's overall budget. It's not going to sway things too much in one way or another."
Colorado imposed a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana and a 10 percent sales tax on retail sales. That's in addition to a pre-existing 2.9 percent tax on medical marijuana. Local governments will keep 15 percent of sales tax revenue, while the rest of the money will stay with the state.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-colorado-marijuana-idUSBREA3A1X720140411?irpc=932
(Reuters) - Colorado, the first state to tax legalized recreational marijuana sales, expects to bring in an estimated $98 million in revenue this year, exceeding the state's original expectations by 40 percent.
The state began levying sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana on January 1, 2014. Moody's Investors Service, in a report released Friday, said legal sales in Colorado will reduce the size of the black market and revenue from legal sales will mean more tax payments flowing into state coffers.
The funds are slated for treatment, school construction and deterring young people from using the drug. School districts will likely get $40 million, or nearly 30 percent, of the projected $134 million in total marijuana tax revenues. New revenues will only make up 1.4 percent of the state's available general fund.
"There's been a lot of buzz around legalization," said Andrea Unsworth, a Moody's analyst. But she cautioned that tax revenues were "still a very small fraction of the state's overall budget. It's not going to sway things too much in one way or another."
Colorado imposed a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana and a 10 percent sales tax on retail sales. That's in addition to a pre-existing 2.9 percent tax on medical marijuana. Local governments will keep 15 percent of sales tax revenue, while the rest of the money will stay with the state.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-colorado-marijuana-idUSBREA3A1X720140411?irpc=932
Can the Fed government even accept a tax revenue on an "illegal" product?
I guarantee in other states there are people being prescribed this for nothing. But they are gonna get it one way or another so might as well make it legal. I just say they make it where it has to be smoked in a private setting. I think people make way too big of a deal about weed. But it should be put to a vote. I know for a fact that it has helped many people with terminal diseases and other things. I heard of a kid with some disease I can't remember what that they were somehow giving him small doses of weed and it actually helped his condition considerably. I'm all for that. It does have a medicinal quality to it.
Expanding on the question, I would not support the legalization for recreational use right now. Oklahoma doesn't need to be among the first states, let's see what problems develop in Colorado, etc. and then set our laws in light of the experience of others.
What are some actually legitimate downsides to smoking marijuana? (self.AskReddit)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/23kon2/what_are_some_actually_legitimate_downsides_to/
Only a few people have mentioned this but it can actually induce/aggravate panic disorder and magnify anxiety. Lived it first hand. Not fun. Had to consult a psychiatrist because it got really bad. Even after not smoking for a while.
[]YoYoDingDongYo 142 points 2 hours ago
This is why I quit. I was having anxiety-induced PVCs all day long, and eventually figured out that the weed was causing them. I quit smoking and they were gone in a week.
Now I can smoke occasionally (every month or two) with no problem, but errday is no good for me.
[]roliav 10 points 2 hours ago
damn i used to get them all the time, but ive never made the link between the two. Do you mind me asking if you still get them occasionally? I haven't smoked in a while and i still experience those 'skipped beats', albeit less frequently
[]brosophila 107 points 2 hours ago
Same. It was awful. I still smoke on occasion, but I've found that if I'm feeling at all anxious beforehand, smoking only makes it worse.
[]Chris_PBacon 26 points 1 hour ago
I definitely agree with this. If anything in my life is particularly unstable or upsetting, it only magnifies it.
[]petaimholdinmelons 48 points 1 hour ago
Same here. Sometimes I felt like I was dying, it was awful. It seemed to come out of nowhere too, like I smoked everyday for about 5 years and all of a sudden BOOM panic attack and then from there it continued until I finally quit.
TheHotCoco 706 points 5 hours ago
My dad was a pot smoker. My entire life. I've probably had more 2nd hand cannabis experience than most ents and most certainly more than the average demographic of Reddit ents. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until I was at a college party. "Why you are smoking the same stuff my dad smoked in his pipe growing up" ... "It's marijuana".
The way he got around the money issue was he never bought it, he grew. When we cleaned out his estate we found gallon sized mason jars full of it.
Straight A student didn't put 2 and 2 together in high school. The rhetoric I was fed at school told me pot heads couldn't hold down a job (my dad had worked for his company for 20 years), pot heads couldn't do sports (my dad was captain of his softball team at work for about as long) he ran half marathons, pretty much every image I had of a pot smoker I've had in my head was flat out wrong.
Then I talked to my mom. Not only did he smoke, he grew for 40+ years. From the time he was in his 20s until the year he died. Our "massive garden" was mostly store bought starter plants. All of the seeds from scratch we had in our house were all his plants. He hid them on a spot of the 50 acres we grew up on that we never went to. From the time I was allowed out of my house until the time I left for college I avoided one spot of the woods. Because growing up he tricked us into fearing the location.
There's a reason I'm in my 30s and just starting. Because it's taken that long to unwind all the mis-information I've been fed over the years. And that's why I hate seeing constant misinformation from adults. I have never seen my dad hallucinate, I never saw him pick up a gun and threaten my mom or my brother.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/23kon2/what_are_some_actually_legitimate_downsides_to/
Only a few people have mentioned this but it can actually induce/aggravate panic disorder and magnify anxiety. Lived it first hand. Not fun. Had to consult a psychiatrist because it got really bad. Even after not smoking for a while.
[]YoYoDingDongYo 142 points 2 hours ago
This is why I quit. I was having anxiety-induced PVCs all day long, and eventually figured out that the weed was causing them. I quit smoking and they were gone in a week.
Now I can smoke occasionally (every month or two) with no problem, but errday is no good for me.
[]roliav 10 points 2 hours ago
damn i used to get them all the time, but ive never made the link between the two. Do you mind me asking if you still get them occasionally? I haven't smoked in a while and i still experience those 'skipped beats', albeit less frequently
[]brosophila 107 points 2 hours ago
Same. It was awful. I still smoke on occasion, but I've found that if I'm feeling at all anxious beforehand, smoking only makes it worse.
[]Chris_PBacon 26 points 1 hour ago
I definitely agree with this. If anything in my life is particularly unstable or upsetting, it only magnifies it.
[]petaimholdinmelons 48 points 1 hour ago
Same here. Sometimes I felt like I was dying, it was awful. It seemed to come out of nowhere too, like I smoked everyday for about 5 years and all of a sudden BOOM panic attack and then from there it continued until I finally quit.
TheHotCoco 706 points 5 hours ago
My dad was a pot smoker. My entire life. I've probably had more 2nd hand cannabis experience than most ents and most certainly more than the average demographic of Reddit ents. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until I was at a college party. "Why you are smoking the same stuff my dad smoked in his pipe growing up" ... "It's marijuana".
The way he got around the money issue was he never bought it, he grew. When we cleaned out his estate we found gallon sized mason jars full of it.
Straight A student didn't put 2 and 2 together in high school. The rhetoric I was fed at school told me pot heads couldn't hold down a job (my dad had worked for his company for 20 years), pot heads couldn't do sports (my dad was captain of his softball team at work for about as long) he ran half marathons, pretty much every image I had of a pot smoker I've had in my head was flat out wrong.
Then I talked to my mom. Not only did he smoke, he grew for 40+ years. From the time he was in his 20s until the year he died. Our "massive garden" was mostly store bought starter plants. All of the seeds from scratch we had in our house were all his plants. He hid them on a spot of the 50 acres we grew up on that we never went to. From the time I was allowed out of my house until the time I left for college I avoided one spot of the woods. Because growing up he tricked us into fearing the location.
There's a reason I'm in my 30s and just starting. Because it's taken that long to unwind all the mis-information I've been fed over the years. And that's why I hate seeing constant misinformation from adults. I have never seen my dad hallucinate, I never saw him pick up a gun and threaten my mom or my brother.
Since it says there are bad side effects to marijuana use someone will be along shortly to tell you how it is made up and marijuana is no more harmful than distilled water.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-reasons-sanjay-gupta-changed-170000967.html
9 Reasons Why Sanjay Gupta Changed His Mind About Marijuana
9 Reasons Why Sanjay Gupta Changed His Mind About Marijuana
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