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   From: Caddyshack.Al@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/9/2017 2:37 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:   
   > In article , a425couple    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> California slapping high taxes on marijuana, causing sticker shock for some   
   >   
   > Just like cigarettes and alcohol.   
   >   
   >> (This appears to me to be a ridiculously bad idea.   
   >> One of the main advantages of making marijuana & THC edibles   
   >> a regulated legal business, is to eliminate the profit for   
   >> illegal drug dealers. Making the legal and above ground regulated   
   >   
   > There's not much of black market in cigarettes and alcohol, at least in   
   > California. The taxes are high   
      
   Not for Alcohol - not as long as Moon Beam is governor. The tax on a   
   bottle Don Julio 1942 at Total Wine in Sacramento is $9.57 (total price   
   $133). In Seattle the tax is $29.72 (total price $175).   
      
   I bought that bottle at Costco in Cabo for $62.   
      
   The tax on pot in Washington is high enough not to kill the black market.   
      
   The difference between pot and tobacco is pot can be grown anywhere and   
   tobacco cannot.   
      
      
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