Fucking taxes.
Addicts, dealers, and casual users in New York City beware, Govenor Elliot Spitzer wants to impose taxes on them there things that take you higher. The New York Times reports:
"Among the hundreds of proposals contained in Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s second executive budget, which he unveiled on Tuesday in Albany, is a provision that would impose a $3.50-a-gram tax on marijuana and a $200-a-gram tax on other illegal drugs, like cocaine...The new Spitzer proposal would require “tax stamps” on “all marihuana and controlled substances acquired or possessed by a dealer in this state,” defined as any person who makes, buys, owns, distributes or transports drugs into or within the state. (And yes, the state government spells marijuana with an H, not a J — a quirk that The Times explained last year.)..."
Apparently 29 other states have passed laws such as these which impose tax liability for controlled substances. [California is not one of them, surprise, surprise.]Crime rates go down, usage begins to cease(?), and the economy is boosted! Or, at least, that is the happy, happy, joy, joy flip side of such a proposal...-Sigh- Yeah, good luck with that...
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