I read this yesterday and can't seem to get over this section:
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "including a plan to offer retail sales of marijuana largely at state-run stores. Private businesses could sell recreational cannabis in certain circumstances, such as if a state store isn’t nearby.
The compromise, Martinez said, also would require people to keep receipts showing they purchased their marijuana legally, and they could carry only 1 ounce of cannabis and couldn’t grow it on their own — in contrast to the previous version of the House proposal."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It seems to me freedom is a long ways away. This sounds like the state is seeking to monopolize the cannabis trade under government control and is very very greedy movement by the legislators. imho they are only smelling the money and are doing nothing for the rights of individuals to successfully participate in a free trade industry.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Also I hear that they have unleashed a bill that allows for agricultural hemp to be grown and thus there is a shortage of horticultural equipment available because it is being bought out. Already for several years CBD stores have spread which defies my understanding of the criminalization of cannabis. Apparently CBD is a by product of hemp production thus making it entirely acceptable where as "drug producing plants" i.e. plants that produce THC must be more carefully regulated. Makes no sense. I think decriminalization is the only way forward and legalization is hypocrisy.
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These frickin 30 and 45 day sessions are BULLSH!#. There is simply NO excuse why it didn’t make it through this year.
the legislators don't get paid,it's citizen government...