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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (778871)4/7/2014 12:17:14 PM
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While no one expected the state’s first-in-the-nation recreational sales would eliminate the need for dangerous underground sales overnight, the violence has raised concerns among police, prosecutors and pot advocates that a black market for marijuana is alive and well in Colorado.

“It has done nothing more than enhance the opportunity for the black market,” said Lt. Mark Comte of the Colorado Springs police vice and narcotics unit. “If you can get it tax-free on the corner, you’re going to get it on the corner.”


Let me get this straight. Narcotics officers (i.e., people who make their living chasing down pot smokers) say, "legalization didn't do away with the illegal trade", a few months into it.

These are, of course, the same people who have lost their unaccountable slush funds of seized property as a result of it; the same people whose jobs are not quite as critical as they were a year ago.

Does it make sense to you at all that there would still be a thriving black market because of the tax differential? If there IS such a black market at all, it will not last long as the idiots participating in it will soon be arrested an in jail for being stupid.
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