Budget advisers for Colorado crunched the numbers and revealed the state could be forced to refund as much as $100 million to taxpayers. The state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights...
But is Project SAM right to suggest that annual tax revenue from the Coloradan recreational marijuana business will be more like $24 million than $118 million next...
Colorado made roughly $2 million in recreational marijuana taxes, based on $14.02 million in sales, for the month of January, state revenue officials reported yesterday. They declared that the...
I have been consistently voicing my concerns about Washington State running the cannabis market. Topics have largely been focused on what the State-run market will do to...
Michigan’s Medical Marihuana Program (MMP) has a surplus of $23,534,952.42, accumulated over the Program’s almost 5-year existence, from overpayment of fees. MI’s legislature approved in this year’s budget...
While it is absolutely amazing that Colorado (already has) and Washington (sometime this year) are opening up recreational marijuana retail shops, I am concerned with how the...
As just about everyone in the world has heard at this point, Colorado became the first state in the nation to allow the sales of recreational marijuana...
A couple of weeks ago the state of Colorado announced that starting in February 2014, the fee to be on the medical marijuana registry and to purchase...
And so it begins. On the first day of 2014, the cannabis policy battle lines decisively shift. No longer strictly a fight between drug warriors and POWs,...
January 1st, 2014 is rapidly approaching as the city of Denver gears up for its highly anticipated retail marijuana market. Colorado of course already has an established medical...
The Setting: Liquor Control Board Public Hearing Over 700 concerned citizens came to Lacey on Wednesday, November 13th for their chance to give feedback on the Liquor...
Recreational marijuana tax measures were all over Colorado’s 2013 election ballots yesterday, from several municipal taxes of 3-5% to the state-wide 25% tax Proposition AA. Proposition AA...
After a long and conflicted meeting, the city council set Boulder, Colorado’s marijuana rules. The conflicts of the meeting consisted mostly of over-strict regulations being revised, but...
The Washington State Liquor Board is in the process of issuing its recommendations for how to regulate recreational marijuana use. This is, more or less, following the...
Jacob Sullum explains why Washington’s black market for weed could be almost untouched by the legal market: 25% taxes at 3 points in production. Studies estimate legal...
Luis Toro of Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a complaint against No Over Taxation, the Colorado anti-marijuana-tax group that has been giving out free joints. “Voters deserve...
With the vote on Proposition AA, Colorado’s proposed 25% marijuana tax, coming up next month the debate over the taxes are heating up. Activists against the tax...
