It was Jack Kemp who said if you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.
In several States and the District of Columbia, there is such a thing as legalized MJ, and they are going to tax the hell out of it.
Here is a snip of a Noo Yawk Times article included here for the benefit of one of our esteemed colleagues who declines to read damnyankee rag sheets and is chronically depressed right now because his Chicago Cubs are in the dumpster as usual.
GREELEY, Colo. - Health and law enforcement officials around the nation are scrambling to figure out how to regulate medical marijuana now that the federal government has decided it will no longer prosecute legal users or providers.
For years, since the first medical marijuana laws were passed in the mid-1990s, many local and state governments could be confident, if not complacent, knowing that marijuana would be kept in check because it remained illegal under federal law, and that hard-nosed federal prosecutors were not about to forget it.
But with the Justice Department's announcement last week that it would not prosecute people who use marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal, local and state officials say they will now have to take on the job themselves. .....
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