Comments on: Florida lawmakers propose 25% “bong tax”

By: Zack Smith

Zack Smith — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:45:29 +0000

It’s not even legal for head shop owners to refer to their wares as “bongs”.

By: jsknow

jsknow — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:19:44 +0000

I’m no lawyer, so maybe some of you legal beagles can help me out here… It seems to me this is a good thing!… If they tax paraphernalia specifically used to smoke marijuana and allow it to be sold legally, aren’t they de facto legalizing marijuana being smoked in those pipes? In other words, how are they going to prosecute a person with marijuana or resin in a pipe that was sanctioned by the state to be sold for the purpose of smoking marijuana?

By: Bubba256

Bubba256 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:53:57 +0000

I love my hookahs!

By: Krispy

Krispy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:21 +0000

I don’t know why FL is such an ass-backwards state. I lived there for a few years and there are so many amazing accepting people down there.

The wrong people are representing FL. There also has to be some underlying problem with the state that has allowed this to happen.

By: Paul Pearson

Paul Pearson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:32:48 +0000

This could be a good thing? Usually a tax on an item means there is protection on that item. I would gladly give up a few extra bucks to assure me the legal right to buy it. If any loopholes in owning a bong (especially with ganja in it) could be closed, this could be good.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:44:51 +0000

Im not a genius at tax law or any of the sort, but “Taxation without representation?!”

this is happening too much in this America.

By: fallibilist

fallibilist — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:39:15 +0000

All of this is because of the stupidity of Gonzales v. Raich, the wrongly decided Supreme Court case that said that states couldn't make their own marijuana laws. Any proper reading of the 9th and 10th amendment says that individuals have unenumerated rights and states have jurisdiction over police powers. The bizarre grouping of liberal statists and conservative morons has imprisoned us on this. Otherwise we'd have at least a couple of states with full legalization. Thank you to Justices Thomas, O'Connor, and Rehnquist. A hearty "fuck you" to all the rest...

By: fallibilist

fallibilist — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:34:06 +0000

mr. reuben,

They’re all multiples of 9.

By: mr reuben

mr reuben — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:14:54 +0000

Russ I’m amazed you still remember that combination.

By: Brent in KY

Brent in KY — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:23:44 +0000

Well this is simply Push back for the gains qwe have made in the last month. They are scared and pulling this type of crap out of their behinds because its al lthey have left.

This could backfire on them too, if it would even happen. So, we all go out and buy bongs in FL, then when the tax money comes in we say “if you get that much tax money from bongs, that people buy once a year or more, how much more money could you generate if you taxed weed, that people buy daily, weekly or monthly?”

How do they think this helps anyhow, they are missing the point, if the state “says” these are illegal drug bongs/pipes and that they Ok to sell, and the state makes money from the 25% tax on the sales of these bongs, right?

So they are saying ok to use them?

Seems to me if they are ok with knowing the bongs are for marijuana or whatever drug and that people are legally buying them to use that drug of choice in them, then we shouldnt be arrested for using a state regulated drug use bong that we paid the state taxes for, yet they knew why we bought it and were ok with it!

What a mess!