http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/08/...ecreational-sales-june-2015-50-million/39384/
Colorados monthly recreational cannabis sales topped $50 million for the first time, according to new data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
The retail pot sales figures for June 2015 also saw their largest-ever month-over-month increase, adding credibility to 2014 trends that hinted at marijuana sales spiking in Colorado tourisms high seasons of summer and winter.
Colorado state Sen. Pat Steadman, a Democrat representing District 31, said that spikes in recreational cannabis sales correlating with tourism hotspots wouldnt surprise me.
It might be too early to say for sure that theres these patterns, but you can explain some of them if you think about the winter sport tourism or summer tourism or other things happening vacations, wedding parties, graduations, said Steadman. Its a lifestyle thing.
Recreational pot sales jumped more than $7.6 million from May to June, totaling $50.1 million, according to the data. Medical marijuana sales also saw a significant uptick in June, up more than $2.8 million from the previous month for an annual high of $35.2 million.
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There are three types of state taxes on recreational marijuana: the standard 2.9 percent sales tax, a 10 percent special marijuana sales tax and a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana transfers. For June, Colorado collected a total of $9 million in recreational taxes and fees and $1.85 million in medical taxes and fees, bringing the 2015 cumulative revenue total to $60.7 million.
The 15 percent excise tax, which is earmarked in Colorado for school construction projects, brought in $2.9 million in June, down from $3.5 million in May. In the first six months of 2015, those school-bound tax revenues topped $16.6 million; in all of 2014, that tax brought in $13.3 million.
So while legal marijuanas school-bound tax monies are growing, theyre still fluctuating month by month but Steadman said thats not a factor for concern.
The excise tax is collected at the point when its transferred from the cultivation to the retail, said Steadman, so if you have several big growers harvesting in the same month, youll get more excise tax that month. It depends on when people make those transfers and what their growing cycles are, so you cant read too much into that.
These June numbers are particularly notable, Steadman said, because the worlds first legal recreational marijuana program now has 18 consecutive months of sales and tax data to study.
I think were going to start seeing some more predictability, said Steadman. The market is becoming more and more stable. There are still new entrants to the market, new licenses being issued and people going out of business too. But from this point forward, well have data that shows us clearer trends around sales volumes and tax data, and thats important.
Colorados monthly recreational cannabis sales topped $50 million for the first time, according to new data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
The retail pot sales figures for June 2015 also saw their largest-ever month-over-month increase, adding credibility to 2014 trends that hinted at marijuana sales spiking in Colorado tourisms high seasons of summer and winter.
Colorado state Sen. Pat Steadman, a Democrat representing District 31, said that spikes in recreational cannabis sales correlating with tourism hotspots wouldnt surprise me.
It might be too early to say for sure that theres these patterns, but you can explain some of them if you think about the winter sport tourism or summer tourism or other things happening vacations, wedding parties, graduations, said Steadman. Its a lifestyle thing.
Recreational pot sales jumped more than $7.6 million from May to June, totaling $50.1 million, according to the data. Medical marijuana sales also saw a significant uptick in June, up more than $2.8 million from the previous month for an annual high of $35.2 million.
Colorado marijuana
Sharing the wealth: How are Colorado schools benefiting from recreational marijuana?
How much? Colorado marijuana sales hit $700 million for 2014
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said it: Pot is not as vexing as we thought it was going to be
Sativa sales: Why pot shops will be selling cheap weed on this one fall day
High lease rates, low vacancies: Pot grows playing pivotal role in tight Denver industrial real estate market
NEW: Get podcasts of The Cannabist Show.
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There are three types of state taxes on recreational marijuana: the standard 2.9 percent sales tax, a 10 percent special marijuana sales tax and a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana transfers. For June, Colorado collected a total of $9 million in recreational taxes and fees and $1.85 million in medical taxes and fees, bringing the 2015 cumulative revenue total to $60.7 million.
The 15 percent excise tax, which is earmarked in Colorado for school construction projects, brought in $2.9 million in June, down from $3.5 million in May. In the first six months of 2015, those school-bound tax revenues topped $16.6 million; in all of 2014, that tax brought in $13.3 million.
So while legal marijuanas school-bound tax monies are growing, theyre still fluctuating month by month but Steadman said thats not a factor for concern.
The excise tax is collected at the point when its transferred from the cultivation to the retail, said Steadman, so if you have several big growers harvesting in the same month, youll get more excise tax that month. It depends on when people make those transfers and what their growing cycles are, so you cant read too much into that.
These June numbers are particularly notable, Steadman said, because the worlds first legal recreational marijuana program now has 18 consecutive months of sales and tax data to study.
I think were going to start seeing some more predictability, said Steadman. The market is becoming more and more stable. There are still new entrants to the market, new licenses being issued and people going out of business too. But from this point forward, well have data that shows us clearer trends around sales volumes and tax data, and thats important.
surprise .. all the doomsayers are wrong .. pot is showing itself to be no more harmful than alcohol and probably less so.
crime has not gone up .. tax revenues are up!! .. in short an economic boom is going on from all the folks visiting and/or moving to Colo for legal access to pot.
crime has not gone up .. tax revenues are up!! .. in short an economic boom is going on from all the folks visiting and/or moving to Colo for legal access to pot.
Colorado on track to collect $105M in pot taxes for 2015. (thedenverchannel.com)
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...lorado-tax-revenues-are-up-nearly-100-percent
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...lorado-tax-revenues-are-up-nearly-100-percent
U.S. just admitted that cannabis DOES kill cancer cells
20 Aug 2015
Conspiracy theorists have been saying it all along but cannabis does apparently kill cancer cells.
Thats according to the US government, which has added a page on the use of cannabis and cannabinoids to their official cancer advice website.
The National Cancer Institute, part of the US Department of Health, now advises that cannabinoids may be useful in treating the side effects of cancer and cancer treatment by smoking, eating it in baked products, drinking herbal teas or even spraying it under the tongue.
The site also lists other uses including: Anti-inflammatory activity, blocking cell growth, preventing the growth of blood vessels that supply tumours, antiviral activity and relieving muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis.
The information page also explains how cancer cells in mice were killed when exposed to cannabis.
Several scientific studies have suggested this in the past, and in April this year the US governments National Institute on Drug Abuse revised their publications to suggest cannabis could shrink brain tumours by killing off cancer cells.
There are now two FDA approved medications for cancer patients available in the US which contain cannabinoids.
In the UK THC is in prescribed drug Sativex but is not yet considered useful on a wider basis for medical purposes.
Now America has said it, perhaps Britain may follow suit soon.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/20/america-just-admitted-that-cannabis-does-kill-cancer-cells-5351845/
20 Aug 2015
Conspiracy theorists have been saying it all along but cannabis does apparently kill cancer cells.
Thats according to the US government, which has added a page on the use of cannabis and cannabinoids to their official cancer advice website.
The National Cancer Institute, part of the US Department of Health, now advises that cannabinoids may be useful in treating the side effects of cancer and cancer treatment by smoking, eating it in baked products, drinking herbal teas or even spraying it under the tongue.
The site also lists other uses including: Anti-inflammatory activity, blocking cell growth, preventing the growth of blood vessels that supply tumours, antiviral activity and relieving muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis.
The information page also explains how cancer cells in mice were killed when exposed to cannabis.
Several scientific studies have suggested this in the past, and in April this year the US governments National Institute on Drug Abuse revised their publications to suggest cannabis could shrink brain tumours by killing off cancer cells.
There are now two FDA approved medications for cancer patients available in the US which contain cannabinoids.
In the UK THC is in prescribed drug Sativex but is not yet considered useful on a wider basis for medical purposes.
Now America has said it, perhaps Britain may follow suit soon.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/20/america-just-admitted-that-cannabis-does-kill-cancer-cells-5351845/
In Texas, police search woman’s vagina for marijuana
August 13, 2015
Here we go again.
A Spring woman claims sheriff’s deputies violated constitutional protections by conducting a body cavity search on the concrete of a Texaco gas station parking lot during a routine traffic stop in late June.
Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old African American, was driving in northern Harris County around 10:30 p.m. on June 21 when a male deputy pulled her over for allegedly running a stop sign. He said he smelled marijuana, handcuffed Corley, put her in his vehicle and searched her car for almost an hour. He didn’t find any pot, according to her attorney, Sam Cammack.
Returning to his car where Corley was held, the deputy again said he smelled marijuana and called in a female deputy to conduct a cavity search. When the female deputy arrived, she told Corley to pull her pants down, but Corley protested because she was cuffed and had no underwear on. The deputy ordered Corley to bend over, pulled down her pants and began to search her.
Then, according to Cammack, Corley stood up and protested, so the deputy threw her to the ground and restrained her while another female was called in to assist. When backup arrived, each deputy held one of Corley’s legs apart to conduct the probe.
Incredibly, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Department told a local TV station that “the deputies did everything as they should.” And so there you have it. Holding a woman down and forcibly penetrating her vagina to search for pot is official policy in Harris County.
Keep in mind that under Texas law, it takes more than four ounces of marijuana to bring a felony charge. This is what four ounces of marijuana looks like. It seems doubtful that a woman could be casually driving around with that much marijuana stuffed into her vagina. So Corley was forced to the ground, stripped, and penetrated to search for evidence that at worst would have amounted to a misdemeanor. Which means that the Harris County Sheriff’s Department believes its perfectly acceptable to allow a stranger to forcibly probe a woman’s vagina in order to prevent her from possessing a personal-use quantity of marijuana. And even that happened without a warrant, based only on one deputy’s claim to have smelled the drug.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...o-search-for-marijuana/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
What would y'all do if this was one of the women in your life?
If she were someone close to me, there would be 3 one-way tickets to oblivion about to be punched.
Where are all the men?
I don't know. I would want to. Then again, I don't think I'm man enough for prison. Not trying to find out. Wish this stuff didn't happen. Maybe something good will come from the increased scrutiny of police tactics.
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Having neither the money nor the time to spend in jail, prayers and forgiveness might be in order
Or NOT.....heh
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