Colorado orders Medical MJ dispensers to pay taxes

Topspin said:
they are
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SmarterThanYou said:
it used to be OTC allergy medicine. why should one need a trial?
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It's OTC based on a set of assumptions in some medical study. If those assumptions are wrong and folks are using it as not intended that there should be an investigation. Case in point: allergy medicines used as an ingredient for illegal drugs.
 
Southern Man said:
It's OTC based on a set of assumptions in some medical study. If those assumptions are wrong and folks are using it as not intended that there should be an investigation. Case in point: allergy medicines used as an ingredient for illegal drugs.
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and in typical cut throat law and order fashion of your right wind ideologue fashion, you eviscerate the majority for punishment of the minority abuse.

question: if 2 liter bottles are now being used to home grow meth, do we need to restrict them now? can we have an automatic life sentence for someone that buys 6 2-liter sodas without a tax stamp?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
and in typical cut throat law and order fashion of your right wind ideologue fashion, you eviscerate the majority for punishment of the minority abuse.

question: if 2 liter bottles are now being used to home grow meth, do we need to restrict them now? can we have an automatic life sentence for someone that buys 6 2-liter sodas without a tax stamp?
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In typical Libertarian fashion you create a straw man argument. How do you make meth out of bottles?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
and in typical cut throat law and order fashion of your right wind ideologue fashion, you eviscerate the majority for punishment of the minority abuse.

question: if 2 liter bottles are now being used to home grow meth, do we need to restrict them now? can we have an automatic life sentence for someone that buys 6 2-liter sodas without a tax stamp?
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Maybe if you studied prohibition the causes and affects you'd be more pro legalization.
I venture I'm more anti-tax than you'll ever be. Prob cause I pay double what you do.
Nobody's rioting against beer and cig taxes
 
Southern Man said:
In typical Libertarian fashion you create a straw man argument. How do you make meth out of bottles?
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http://www.galesburg.com/news/news_state/x884488331/Shake-and-bake-meth-harder-to-detect

The drug itself hasn’t changed, but the process of making it has, according to Chief Deputy Jack Campbell of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office. Meth stoves, or “labs” — often converted coolers — are being traded for plastic bottles with the newfound prevalence of what authorities have termed “shake-and-bake” methamphetamine.

“It’s basically self-contained,” Campbell said. “Everything is put into a plastic jug or two-liter soda bottle, and when they shake it up, they don’t let it settle out. They pour that liquid through a coffee filter.”
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Topspin said:
Maybe if you studied prohibition the causes and affects you'd be more pro legalization.
I venture I'm more anti-tax than you'll ever be. Prob cause I pay double what you do.
Nobody's rioting against beer and cig taxes
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are you confusing me with southernman? because there's no other explanation for why your post makes zero sense.
 
Topspin said:
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Nobody's rioting against beer and cig taxes
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They are starting to about the cig taxes.

I don't have a problem with these "sin" taxes. (Don't bother me with attacks on this euphemism, pull-eze.) Take tax on booze for example. A little bit of booze is a great thing, but its overuse isn't, and exacts a toll on society. A tax should therefore discourage its overuse, and the revenue should at least cover the societal costs. Make the tax too low and these costs are not covered; make the tax punitive and scofflaws are encouraged, actually increasing the burden on society.
 
Southern Man said:
They are starting to about the cig taxes.

I don't have a problem with these "sin" taxes. (Don't bother me with attacks on this euphemism, pull-eze.) Take tax on booze for example. A little bit of booze is a great thing, but its overuse isn't, and exacts a toll on society. A tax should therefore discourage its overuse, and the revenue should at least cover the societal costs. Make the tax too low and these costs are not covered; make the tax punitive and scofflaws are encouraged, actually increasing the burden on society.
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you believe in taxation as a form of societal engineering?

you are not a conservative. you're a totalitarian.
 
Southern Man said:
So they're used as containers, not an essential ingredient. I don't see your point.
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i'll try this again, slowly.

allergy meds used to be OTC.

Now, because a ingredient that relieves allergy symptoms was found to be useful in the making of an illicit drug, they are no longer OTC.

so equating the single ingredient in a OTC medicine as being necessary to now regulate the sales of allergy relief medicine is the same as meth makers using 2 liter bottles instead of empty coolers should lead to regulating the sales of refreshments in 2 liter bottles.

after all, how much allergy medicine would one need to buy to manufacture a suitable quantity of meth for large scale sales?
 
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