Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The state of Arizona saw $1.23 billion in sales after legalizing recreational marijuana one year ago. This figure does not include December’s final reporting. Medical marijuana accounted for $703 million in purchases while recreational produced $528 million. The state will collect over $196 million on those earnings, with a good percentage going to education.
The Marijuana Excise Tax will contribute $92.9 million to community colleges and health departments, while $7.3 million will go toward an education sales tax. “Rarely does an industry produce over $1.2 billion in revenue in its first year. This number shows that the legalization of cannabis is something Arizonans believe strongly in and the many benefits it contributes to the state’s economy,” Samuel Richard, the executive director of the Arizona Dispensaries Association, said in a press release.
Canada has long recognized the lucrative venture of cannabis, as have numerous US states. However, the US still deems marijuana as a schedule 1 narcotic on par with drugs such as heroin and crystal meth. This means that they consider marijuana to have no medical properties, despite numerous studies stating otherwise. Addictive narcotics, promoted and profited by Big Pharma, are not considered schedule 1.
Some estimates claim that 40,000 people are currently serving time in US prisons and jails for marijuana-related offenses. In 2019, US authorities arrested 350,149 people for possessing marijuana. Of those arrested, 24% were black. An increasing number of politicians are agreeing with the public who typically votes in favor of decriminalization whenever it makes the ballot. Texas Governor Abbott, who is not in favor of complete legalization, concluded “prison and jail is a place for dangerous criminals who may harm others, and small possession of marijuana is not the type of violation that we want to stockpile jails with.”
Decriminalization was another campaign lie provided by the Biden Administration. Vice President Kamala Harris stated that reform simply was not a priority for them. Will he reuse this promise to save his bottom-of-the-barrel approval rating? Thousands are sitting in jail awaiting an answer.
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People talk about crypto being used for criminal activity. All the Marijuana sales are done in the dollar. Cash is king with criminal organizations like our Government.
They are only done in cash because of the criminal and unconstitutional control of the baking system by the Federal Reserve.
Some people do bake it. Just kidding. 😝
Baking system
Nice freudian slip
Who is surprised that so many would want to escape from THIS reality?
I can open people’s eyes to reality. It is in the eye of the beholder what to do with it. Or it could just lead to garbled thinking, like too much of anything.
Every part of AZ I’ve been in is pretty dry. I hear Lake Mead is at an all time low. Not too long ago the Phoenix area was discouraging grass lawns, even going as far as offering $$ incentives for what amounted to rock gardens for a yard. Where are they getting the water?
Article is talking selling MJ, does not mention where it is grown.
Passing through southern Utah October ‘20, yikes, dry , dry , dry. I’d never been in Utah so checking things out. Cruised to Lake Powell. Dry country out there.
its desert country… dry happens there…
Sure. I believe “unusually” dry however. Talking to folks familiar with the Colorado River in Southwestern US it’s more than just the desert country.
What do I know? 🙂
Utah’s water outlook slightly improved, but West remains in grip of long-term drought.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/09/14/utahs-water-outlook/
In Highland Park, Dallas , Texas some residents there are allowed to by pass watering “restrictions” while less “prominent ” peeps are expected to comply.
I don’t know what to say. When dry as hell in Texas perhaps we all start recycling other people’s piss for our water supply like Wichita Falls , Texas did some number of years ago. I understand since the big droughts in Texas around 2014 or so subsided Wichita, Falls has ceased the practice of drinking other people’s piss.
I’m thinking one’s own piss may be good for those water conservation lawns consisting of St. Augustine water thirsty grass. Big “issue” in NE Texas for a number of years is the Marvin Nichols Lake project. It involves further damming of the Sulphur River bottoms while Wright Patman lake already exists. Seems peeps that own land in that Sulphur River bottom are irritated to no end they lose their land and the posterity for the grand kids so Highland Park elites can water those lawns. Of course big cities are pooping in their britches what to do as massive population growth continues to stress already weak resources such as water. That’s what it’s about, put a jaggar in the hearts of rural peeps.
It’s just the “way it is” I suppose , stick it up the peeps rear ends so peeps in Highland Park can water those pristine St. Augustine lawns. Reminds me of eminent domain for private gain favored by a former president whose name I won’t mention. He was all in favor of the eminent domain decision in Kelo v. City of New London.
I vote we take MyGirls property and build a casino. Yes!
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/oct/07/club-growth/trump-supports-eminent-domain-abuse-says-conservat/
Why don’t we make a proposal to Highland Park that to help them conserve we’ll come piss on their lawns?
I’ll even make the 100-mile-plus drive. Because we’re all in this together.
I’m with you on that Captain. It’s about 180 miles or so for me. lol
It is better medicine than what Big Pharma is peddling, for the most part. I don’t see much in it for healthy people, though. I don’t know it cures anything.
Not sure, perhaps weed make one “forget” they are ill?
Nice set of man boobs you got there pothead You smoke this shit to escape reality? Its just gonna be there waiting for you piled higher and deeper
Texas “legalized” hemp although I don’t know it is being grown and utilized. For crappy soils in my area while pine trees love it, I’m all for a hemp field in areas of pasture not being grazed. Hemp supposedly replenishes crappy soil.
The only problem is some over ambitious law enforcement dude, the jack booted thug types, burning your house down because you are growing hooch then to realize as Ron Paul once mentioned, one could smoke hemp the size of a telephone pole and not get “high”. Probably cough to death for sure, me saying that.
With the jack booted thugs they very well may bribe the chemical testing labs to report the bust was a higher THC thing found in recreational and medical hooch thus releasing them of any liability or that a “mistake” was made. Meanwhile, homeless as the house sits in a heap of ashes. Trust no one.