{"id":85630,"date":"2023-08-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85630"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:08:06","slug":"amateur-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85630","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As cannabis becomes legal in Minnesota today ,it’s become fairly clear that the DFL didn’t read the bill they’d copied and pasted from some advocate’s model legislation file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cities around the state are frantically passing legislation to treat public consumption the same as cigarettes, vaping and alcohol – things the state didn’t bother to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they’ve thoughtfully left the door wide open for the black marketeers<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But even though growing, possessing and using weed will be legal for people 21 and older on Aug. 1, you still won\u2019t be able to buy marijuana from a licensed dealer in most of the state. It will likely be more than a year before dispensaries begin opening. Democrats say they framed their bill that way so regulators would have enough time to develop rules for recreational marijuana sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics say allowing possession of so much marijuana without also allowing its sale will be a boon for unlawful and unregulated black market sellers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention the tax rate – which, at 10%, is roughly 100% higher than the black market tax rate of absolutely nil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – we’ll have all the black-market crime, plus a disproportionally baked population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the DFL’s dream. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As cannabis becomes legal in Minnesota today ,it’s become fairly clear that the DFL didn’t read the bill they’d copied and pasted from some advocate’s model legislation file. Cities around the state are frantically passing legislation to treat public consumption the same as cigarettes, vaping and alcohol – things the state didn’t bother to do. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85639,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630\/revisions\/85639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}