[Grass Lands]

Which are funded by tax dollars, not the stores....well, minus the tax revenue they generate.


The article said dispensaries are required to GIVE AWAY 2% of their product to the poor, and that's BULLSHIT.

Are dispensaries not already paying taxes? Yes they are.

NO business should be required to give away 2% of their merchandise AND pay taxes. Period.

You got that shit right bro...


Once again they want to take from folks who WORK for a fucking living and give it to those who want to fucking sponge off the system. and by the way it has to be top shelf nuggs they give out...(seen the news report last night)

One more reason to stay on the dark side.

[stasis]

Cannabis is the whipping boy, as it becomes legal, this crap happens/

What a bunch of shit. In General.

I am appauled at the Business Men tools in Florida. Have talked to some, and they are so arrogant - I make fun of them to their face. Watch the failures. Can't wait.

I especially love Illinois and the fees to even apply.. It is amazing. Shouldn't be surprised.

It is like Go To Your Room, if I have to allow You Cannabis. On their way to the Licko Sto. Or local Bar.

Folly upon Folly. I take care of myself, and will choose my trajectory. Avoiding Stuffed-Shi(r)ts.

[Floridian]

The requirement for a business to give away anything leads to mental retardation and grotch-rot

[KGB47]

This isn't going to make me popular but I'm against this on principle. Whenever you try to mandate/legislate fairness and equity you end up strong-arming the other party to make it happen thus punishing somebody else in your rush to appear charitable, usually with somebody else's money or goods, etc.

[Space Toker]

well this thread started out nice and then the selfish pricks took over! I almost never (maybe twice in 10 years) give neg rep, but was tempted in a couple cases here, but I don't believe in that so I think I will refrain. Low income is low income, plenty (most) poor people are not lazy, they are just poor. The attitude and ignorance and arrogance of some sickens me!
It is a shame you have to legislate this kind of thing though, individuals and businesses should want to help others, and well more than 2%, as much as they can afford! All businesses should be mandated or none though, cannabis should not be singled out. But dispensary owners should have done something as good or better than this on their own, setting a "higher standard" if you will for all businesses to follow!

[Gry]

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[KGB47]

There are two collectives that I know of in the Lake County area that routinely give away free medication to very sick/underfunded individuals but nobody makes them do this, they do it out of compassion and kindness. You can't mandate fairness without hurting somebody.

[gaiusmarius]

i agree that this should be on a voluntary basis, either that or give them a tax credit. you can not force charity.

having said that i would think that many dispensaries would be running some kind of program to enable them to help people that really need it. i mean aren't many of them run as non profits? so why not use some of the profits to help locals in the community that it will make a huge difference to? personally i'd prefer to see this rather then the crazy tax % they are jacking on. very sad to see the tax level keeping the bud price at pre legality levels still. they are destroying 90% of the point of legalization, by keeping it at such an artificially high price. this just invites the whole illegal side of the trade to keep on trucking.

but yeah a fair tax of 5 % would be plenty and would actually mean the prices could come right down. but yeah high tax and forced charity is just more of this modern day politically correct BS.

if they really want low income peeps to have cheap weed don't fucking tax it at 75% by the time it reaches the consumer. they are just trying to look good in a pc way, while still being greedy as fuck.

[Grass Lands]

Here's the issue...we should have no issue helping folks out...the issue I do have is someone telling us we have to give something away...

if they want it to be given away then why not push the feds to open up their program again so the folks in need can get their "entitlement gov weed" like they used to get their "gov cheese".

For those of us who already give away a lot of weed, this was too long in coming.