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sanka
Concerned Citizen
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: Marijuana tax stamps? |
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| i recently read about marijuana tax stamps and i wanted to know if you possess a stamp can you get incarcerated? it seemed to me that this stamp actually makes your weed legal.. |
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OnTheBorder
Antiprohibitionist
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 42
Location: Inside the checkpoints, along the Rio Grande
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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The tax stamps were made obsolete after the SCOTUS found the Tax Stamp Act to be unconstitutional. the Marijuana tax Stamp Act was repealed when Congress enacted the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
The ones that exist, however, are collectors items, but they won't prevent you from being busted. |
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sanka
Concerned Citizen
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| except on NORML, they have the list of states that have the stamps and it lists the penalties.. are they still not usable? |
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FZRaven
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Joined: 07 Aug 2007
Posts: 290
Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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some states still have tax stamps for cannabis, and they will try and reclaim the tax money if your busted. I can't remember the states I'll look around and report back. I think ontheborder is thinking of the federal tax stamps.
Here's a page on NORML about state tax stamps, http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6670
And here's a list of the states and the stamps, http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6668 |
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sanka
Concerned Citizen
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| what do you mean when you say they will try to reclaim the tax money? |
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FZRaven
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Posts: 290
Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Well it's taxed, so unless you've been a good drug dealer and sent the state the tax every time you sell a 1/8th your going to be owing some back taxes. If they get you with a pound they can try and collect the tax owed on it and so on and so forth. |
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HighinPA
Antiprohibitionist
Joined: 06 May 2008
Posts: 10
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: Yes they still exist |
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| I worked at a juvenile detention center with a guy who used to be a drug narc agent from Oklahoma. He told me Oklahoma has a tax stamp for Marijuana. He said the sole purpose of it is to add another trumped up charge (usually tax evasion) to the person caught with a pound of Marijuana or more. But he also said who was gonna walk into the state capital and tell them I have 15 pounds of Marijuana in my trunk. I need tax stamps for it. He also believes in Barry's ideologies. He thinks arresting people for Marijuana is stupid. We don't hurt anyone. It was the main reason as to why he left his job. |
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shortyflow
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Joined: 24 Apr 2008
Posts: 587
Location: Porter Pot in Brazil
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| it sould be nice. i have never even heard of the stamps. |
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socrateez
Stoned Philosopher
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
Posts: 1226
Location: I'm the person to your right.
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Yes they still exist |
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| HighinPA wrote: | | It was the main reason as to why he left his job. |
We seem to hear this a lot. Sounds like good Cops with a conscious are leaving in numbers. What does that leave us with? |
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