Chuck Schumer's over-taxed marijuana bill would only aid illegal...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "In addition to state and local licensing fees, there were elaborate rules on cultivation, retailing, transportation, manufacture, testing, facility siting, ownership, security, storage, on-site consumption, wholesale distribution, seed-to-sale tracking, waste disposal, labeling, packaging, environmental compliance, water usage, etc. ad nauseam."
49% : His 296-page Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, which is cosponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), includes 52 pages dealing with taxation and 71 pages prescribing new regulations for marijuana businesses.
39% : The continuing war on weed in California, which supposedly legalized marijuana in 2016, reflects the striking failure to replace black-market dealers with state-licensed vendors, a plan that has been doomed by high taxes, local bans and overregulation.
34% : A recent report from the Reason Foundation (my employer) highlights one major reason licensed businesses have had so much trouble competing with illegal suppliers: Taxes are too high.
34% :Given the FDA's dubious sense of what protecting public health means in other areas, such as regulation of tobacco and nicotine-vaping products, that is a pretty scary clause.

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