Dan Kone
Well-Known Member
I could put up some numbers and claim that this is how it would be, but then I'd be presenting you with my own speculations as fact. The truth is no one really knows how that will work. It's very likely there will be many counties that will be hostile to ending prohibition and they will make their own obscene local laws. It's also very likely that other counties/cities will have fair and just laws.
The places making unjust laws are doing so out of fear and ignorance. Once they see that ending prohibition doesn't increase crime or create drug addicts cities and counties will liberalize their laws over time. Prop 19 isn't the end of prohibition, it's only the beginning of the end. One thing that is for sure, ending prohibition is going to be a long fight. I'm ready for that fight and I welcome it.
What I can do is tell you the tax rate that cities/counties are going to be voting on and will be imposed regardless of if prop 19 passes or not. They don't need prop 19 to tax cannabis. It's happening now anyways. Here are a few.
San Jose will be voting on a 10% tax rate. City counsel members have been quoted as saying that if prop 19 passes they will likely lower or eliminate the tax on medical cannabis and have a tax on recreational cannabis use only. If prop 19 fails, that 10% tax will be imposed on all medical cannabis.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/San-Jose-Cannabis-Tax-Heading-to-Voters-99936409.html
10% is high, but it's not that unbearable. It's not as bad as $50 an ounce or 30%.
Rancho Cordova is not being so friendly. They are placing an absolutely obscene tax on even personal home medical growing. They are doing so regardless of if prop 19 passes. I sure hope someone sues them. They are interfering with patients rights to access medicine. You can read the details for your self, but it's the worst cannabis related law that I've ever seen in California.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/29/2990210/rancho-cordova-asking-voters-to.html
