The lawsuits will be so expensive.
Especially if it is legalized through a proposition. There is no chance whatsoever that the voters can handle something this complex. No chance that a proposition that covers every aspect of the cannabis industry could even be conceived, much less brought before the voters. And that means lawsuits, letting the courts decide all of the stuff that is going to come up, outside of the propositions language.
And that means lawyers on both sides. Judges, billable hours, for a about ten million things.
Look at the CO initiative. That law is so vague that almost every aspect of the industry is going to go to court, many many many times before it is all cleared up.
This is probably the most complex thing we care facing right now. There are so many aspects an sub aspects going on with this and now the only way to rectify them is to go to court.
Just ten things that are never covered in any proposition; (and will need to be settled in court which will cost the taxpayers for decades)
exactly how is it to be sold retail? in store fronts? At Football games like Liquor? At the 7-11 or in a specialty shop?
Edibles, where can you sell them? Can I sell them at legally Red Rocks and why not?
extracts, how are they made, safety,
product safety we require that of everything right?
product labeling, dosages, % content
large grower versus the backyard grower that still makes 20K selling weed. Or the guy who grows five plants, but they piss off his neighbor.
Zoning
driving (actual impairment, tested and verified)
Public smoking, Apartments> Condos? restaurants/ bars?
Public vaporizing?
What about tasting rooms?
Pot tourism? (around here it is HUGE)
Taxes is intensely complicated. Do you put trimmers on the payroll? How are you going to get a grower, one who has been a criminal all of their live, to pay taxes? Or do books? And how do you even account for it all? Some us the trim some don't. Some give it away and it gets used by someone else for another product.
I know my share of growers and I know NONE of them will pay taxes voluntarily. The only way they will pay taxes is how it happened after Prohibition, revenuers going through the woods finding grows and slapping tax tags on them.
And with that you will have to step up enforcement of public lands grows, if you are going to be taxed, then you need to protect the market by stopping tax free weed. And that means a bigger budget for the weed crusaders, only this time they will be able to focus only on Public lands.
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