Howie Carr – The stoners of Massachusetts are shocked and angry and they can’t believe what has happened to them.
They’ve been double-crossed by the Legislature.
Like, we had a referendum last year, dude, and it passed, totally, and it was binding, man, which means it’s, like, law, and now the hacks have not only thrown it out, they’ve raised the weed tax from 12 percent to 28 percent!
The Legislature broke its word to the electorate? Say it ain’t so! We’re so sorry, Cheech and Chong. But you know, maybe if you hadn’t been in a Class D cannabis funk these last 20 or so years, you might have been able to see this one coming. more here
Can you imagine? They thought they were “special” in the eyes of the State. *giggle*
Hey man, what did you expect in Massachusetts.
The first to enact gay marriage and led the way for Obamacare. Home of sexually abusive priests, Romney, Eliz. Warren, Ed Markey and a completely democrat congressional delegation.
Load another bowl and you’ll forget all about it until you buy another ounce of weed, dumbasses of assachusetts.
Just how soon are they going to raise the taxes on pot in Wash. state? Not that I care since I don’t smoke weed but it would serve the stoners right.
The good news is they will raise higher and higher taxes every year! That is what Dhimmcretans do.
Wait till they find out joints are 5 times as carcinogenic than cigarettes, thus they’ll be taxed even more.
So some Americans want the government to leave them alone and let them put what they want into their own bodies and the commenters here think it’s funny and a good thing when the government screws them over? Why, because you personally don’t smoke weed?
Based on past comments here I thought you folks were all about personal freedom and the government staying out of your lives. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Awwww…..another hard lesson learned by our very slow brethren at the other end of the bell-curve:
Government doesn’t care about you!
@James B. Webb Try to keep up–we’re ridiculing Massachusetts and its idiot voters. You would have to be a dope-smoking moron not to see the taxes coming.
Ijuts are going to habitually raise taxes so high stoners will resort to growing their own or finding it cheaper in another state. Imagine that.
Jimmy Webb
I didn’t read that into any of the comments.
I don’t care what anybody says as long as it isn’t true.
Ever watch tobacco taxes? From both Fed and individual State level, the tobacco taxes keep going up & up. And they’ve got the addicts on a hook. Of course, it also creates a black market on untaxed cigs (exploited by Muslim black market rings in a couple of high-profile cases). And the gov’t gets addicted to the tax income from this. As people quit smoking ( to save money) the Gov’ts have to find replacement taxes for their addiction (to $$). They found another group of addicts to exploit.
It is a free country. Taxachussets Pot Smokers are free to emigrate to any State that taxes weed at a lower rate than Taxachussetts. Just don’t be surprised if the next State gov’t also looks at Pot as a “cash cow” and raises their rates too.
Pay the tax, quit your bitching and get stoned. That’s what I would do if I still smoked pot.
Bogus
@James B. Webb
Don’t argue with Drunks
Especially Boston Class D Drunks
Like Howie Carr and Mike Barnicle
Waste of Time
I’ve never smoked pot. I rarely have an alcoholic beverage. I wonder what wonderful “thing” in life I have missed? Non that I can think of. Pot smokers can smoke it at their own homes, but not at mine. I have told people who have come to my house already stoned they are not welcome.
I don’t agree with the government controlling what adults do to/with their own bodies in their own homes by law or punitive tax. But, since these “vice” laws/taxes are, in my opinion, tenth amendment issues, this is a local/state matter so the voters in MA have to take care of it.
When the politicians screw you over, campaign to have them replaced.
@Bo Tsar
Quit your bitching, don’t pay the tax , grow your own, get stoned and let the government pound sand. Being a braindead progressive isn’t a requirement to enjoy a little weed.
Decriminalize the possession and distribution for profit, if they make money, let the IRS bust them, worked for Capone.
But nooo, they needed cute little boutiques, Jelly jars lined up in a row, kitschy little names.
Starbuck’s for Weed.
Morons
It’s TaxatwoShits, who cares?
The weed aficionados, in a state where weed is completely illegal, were told by the crew that runs the cops… You weed aficionados, in a state where weed is completely illegal, know what the cops are, right? The crew that runs the cops, told you weed aficionados that if enough of you put your names and home addresses on a form, and then after, but only after, the whole state agreed, that the crew that runs the cops could take over your weed supply, that the crew that runs the cops would “take car of you.” And you signed the form, and handed them your wallets, and now, now… Oh, stoner, please!