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I don't even care if there's still some trafficking. I can't remember the last time I've ever heard of someone getting shot over smuggling terrible bootleg cigs or burning down a house with their stupid tobacco grow op and nobody goes to jail for having a cig at a park. That's good enough for me.
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Restricting access to weed among youth and turning it into a major cash cow for the government decreases the chance that it will reduce the load in law enforcement and the courts. The heavier the restrictions on how it's sold the larger the grey market will be, and if the people who determine police budgets are suddenly relying on revenue from marijuana sales to keep income and property taxes low then you could easily end up with much more restrictive and extensive police enforcement. Marijuana mostly serves as a catch all excuse to search and harass people. Make it a major source of government revenue and the state might take a much more active role than their current pose of benign neglect.
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EvilJoven posted:I don't even care if there's still some trafficking. I can't remember the last time I've ever heard of someone getting shot over smuggling terrible bootleg cigs or burning down a house with their stupid tobacco grow op and nobody goes to jail for having a cig at a park. That's good enough for me. Black market tobacco is definitely nowhere near the revenue of other drugs but it's definitely a big business for criminal organizations. Estimated that the tax revenue lost from cigarettes is in the billions in Canada. Weed will be bigger.
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It's also worth noting that Ontario's proposed legislation makes it illegal to smoke up in the park.
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infernal machines posted:It's also worth noting that Ontario's proposed legislation makes it illegal to smoke up in the park. but can you still gently caress in it?
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There is apparently a pretty huge black market for Chinese cigarettes because they are dirt cheap and mainlander immigrants actually prefer them for their "stronger taste". I would never have imagined that to be a thing. Mmm extra mysterious heavy metals and god knows what else in my already super self destructive drug of choice.
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infernal machines posted:It's also worth noting that Ontario's proposed legislation makes it illegal to smoke up in the park. You can't smoke anything in a lot of parks already, which is very good. Keep that disgusting habit away from others, and during the summer it's a big fire risk too because most smokers are selfish dumbasses who flick their butts anywhere they want.
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Canadian cigs are pretty gross, to be honest. I would've bought the gently caress out of contraband Lucky Strikes back when I was smoking, even if they were the exact same price.
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Ban all cigarettes imo. Raise the legal age to buy cigarettes by a year every year, so that existing addicts aren't overly punished but no one else is allowed to start smoking.
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PT6A posted:Canadian cigs are pretty gross, to be honest. I would've bought the gently caress out of contraband Lucky Strikes back when I was smoking, even if they were the exact same price. All cigarette are gross, you loving weirdo
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Helsing posted:Restricting access to weed among youth and turning it into a major cash cow for the government decreases the chance that it will reduce the load in law enforcement and the courts. The heavier the restrictions on how it's sold the larger the grey market will be, and if the people who determine police budgets are suddenly relying on revenue from marijuana sales to keep income and property taxes low then you could easily end up with much more restrictive and extensive police enforcement. Hence the huge police presence that's used to enforce alcohol and tobacco? I doubt it. After legalization possession will be legal, which removes the most common legal offense and the most common excuse to harass people. The grey market is neither here nor there in this case. When it comes to grow ops or dispensaries then yeah it will matter more, and dispensaries will probably be cracked down on hard in most jurisdictions.
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Solution: make weed legal for kids
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Kill all smokers
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bunnyofdoom posted:but can you still gently caress in it? Try and stop me.
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infernal machines posted:Try and stop me. No no in Canada we say "just watch me"
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vyelkin posted:No no in Canada we say "just watch me" Good point. Unrelated, Canada's MMJ winners struggle with social justice
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I'm sorry for posting stupid Twitter poo poo, but https://twitter.com/CPC_HQ/status/908800592784515072
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Might be another good opportunity right about now to make some money off another hype bubble in weed stocks. Seems to be something positive for the weed biz in the news every couple days now. This has been your daily hot stock tip in the Canadian Politics thread on the (dead, gay) Something Awful comedy forums.
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Conservatives can't do humour to save their lives, and it's a bad look whenever they try. Just know your audience and stick to being sour, serious and overly dire.
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I hope the conservatives go all in on the meme war
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odiv posted:I'm sorry for posting stupid Twitter poo poo, but I actually liked that meme 
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odiv posted:I'm sorry for posting stupid Twitter poo poo, but Sorry, more Vice, here's the Con's internal strategy for slagging the Liberals over the proposed tax changes. brucio posted:I hope the conservatives go all in on the meme war Always fun, because the pool they draw from is nothing but the most vile, racist, misogynistic poo poo out of the states. They can't seem to help dog whistling the ugliest garbage, intentional or no. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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odiv posted:I'm sorry for posting stupid Twitter poo poo, but this would actually be funny if they weren't using it to shill for Friedmanism and just made Trudeau look like dat boi. It's literally impossible for them to just be funny; they always have to stick a razor in the apple. At least the means-tested profanity dodge makes me laugh.
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odiv posted:I'm sorry for posting stupid Twitter poo poo, but Fearmongering over debt is dumb, but that's actually a pretty good meme.
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I'm not clicking an Andrew come tweet yyvm
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 People making over $200,000 of investment income a year have to pay 73% tax on whatever investment income they make over $200,000.
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McGavin posted:
It's so hard to be rich, I have to pay my cooks and gardeners!
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Argas posted:It's so hard to be rich, I have to pay my cooks and gardeners! I look forward to seeing the $200,000+ set having to deal with being outpaced by inflation, just like the plebes underneath them.
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Thank goodness the Conservative party is there to stand up for the roughly 50,000 out of 1.8 million CCPCs in Canada who use dividend sprinkling to lower their tax burden by $250,000,000 per year. 
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Powershift posted:https://twitter.com/AirCanada/status/908753795265556480 Actually the link in that tweet is to their original attack delivered on loving Facebook of all things.
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James Baud posted:Specifically, people with small businesses earning 200k+ pay that on the income on money they have accumulated over the past 40+ years of this tax regime. People who don't have small businesses but earn 200k+ pay significantly less. Likewise they pay massively higher taxes if they planned on dividending these retained earnings out through retirement to a spouse who might not pass the new "reasonability" test. nah
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