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I fucking had it with this country(US)

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tullamore

tullamore

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I got up early today becaue I wanted to send a MG deposit. The deposit couldn't go through because, I had aready sent a MG to another book in the beginning of the week. I guess you are allowed to send money once per 7 days to the same country.

Glad the US is cracking down on this shit, all I do is work for an honest living, pay my taxes and bills on time, but I cant send my own hard earn money to sportsbook.
 
Honestly, I'm not interested in either scenario. Nothing is more reprehensible to me than the government ownership of what should obviously be the private sector. I'd rather join Al Qaeda than support yet another socialist project on our home soil.
 
I think my real question is: would you rather have less headaches with deposits, payouts etc if it meant the govt collecting a tax on profits (they try now, but it seems like a shot in the dark IMO)

you can apply the same question to pot. Is the price paid for a "whiter" market worth it?
 
djiddish98
I think my real question is: would you rather have less headaches with deposits, payouts etc if it meant the govt collecting a tax on profits (they try now, but it seems like a shot in the dark IMO)

you can apply the same question to pot. Is the price paid for a "whiter" market worth it?
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Oh, absolutely. I'd totally accept reasonable regulation and taxation (I won't balk at 15%) in exchange for the ability to conduct business as I see fit.

I'd be even happier if they did it with marijuana. Honestly, I'd like them to take the unreasonable profit margin out of this industry, it'd force me to find something else to do. Especially if I could buy premium chronic at the drugstore for $5/gram (that's my rough guess at a fair market value). I think it'd have a staggering effect too on decreasing tobacco and alcohol abuse and reducing vehicular injuries/fatalities due to impaired driving.
 
RogueScholar
Oh, absolutely. I'd totally accept reasonable regulation and taxation (I won't balk at 15%) in exchange for the ability to conduct business as I see fit.

I'd be even happier if they did it with marijuana. Honestly, I'd like them to take the unreasonable profit margin out of this industry, it'd force me to find something else to do. Especially if I could buy premium chronic at the drugstore for $5/gram (that's my rough guess at a fair market value). I think it'd have a staggering effect too on decreasing tobacco and alcohol abuse and reducing vehicular injuries/fatalities due to impaired driving.
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I like your logic on reduced tobacco use, but the tobacco lobbyist probably have some studying proving that same theory, and therefore will keep contributing to politicians campaigns to prevent the legality of marijuana.
 
Ike Mana
Interesting read here Scholar: http://www.newsweek.com/2009/10/30/gay-marriage-marijuana.html

Unfortunately don't think it will happen as quickly as he suggests.
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That's a well-written article, Ike. I couldn't find a single objectionable point in it, but I fear if you polled a representative sample of Americans that fewer than half would agree with it or even take the time to listen. American society is collapsing under the weight of its citizens' political apathy and staggering self-absorption. The sad reality is that there's a very finite timetable on these reforms, and quite simply it's that daily life will have to become sufficiently troublesome for a large enough population segment that they will be forced to care about public policy. It sickens me to think that today's Americans are going to require real hardship before they care about anyone other than themselves.

tullamore
I like your logic on reduced tobacco use, but the tobacco lobbyist probably have some studying proving that same theory, and therefore will keep contributing to politicians campaigns to prevent the legality of marijuana.
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I agree Tully, and I bet the food and beverage industry has a loud voice in those discussions as well. Nobody in the bar & restaurant industry wants people to start going to the drugstore to buy some pot and a frozen pizza for entertainment as opposed to going out and spending money at their establishments. Removing the criminal stigma from marijuana could partially reinvent the entire entertainment sector, and the people who are making the money now are sure to make this fight much, much harder than it should be.
 
Polaroid
How is the Californian legislation going? Is it still going to the vote? Has it got any chance of passing?
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It's going to be on the ballot, but I haven't heard that the Secretary of State has assigned it a number yet so there hasn't been much marketing. The last poll I read showed 65% of California men (blind poll, sadly these aren't qualified "likely voters") and 46% of women support the measure. Once they assign it a number, lawn signs will start to go up and the pollsters will be better able to quantify the support.

It's something of a lame duck, too, because the Controlled Substances Act would have to be amended by the Federal government to allow states the freedom to set their own drug policy.
 
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