NORML to Present $14 Billion Dollar Check to the US Treasury on Tax Day!
Calls On Congress to Tax and Regulate Cannabis to Boost Economy
TAX US!
On Wednesday, April 15, AT 4:20 PM, representatives of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), including the organization’s national director Allen St. Pierre, will stand on the steps of the General Post Office in Midtown Manhattan and present a check for $14 billion to the US Treasury Department.
The check total is an estimate of what American taxpayers spend every year to maintain marijuana prohibition, according to the report, “The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States” (prohibitioncosts.org), Americans spend some $6 billion on law enforcement costs related to enforcing marijuana laws. Taxing and regulating the production and sale of cannabis like alcohol would reduce these costs while raising an estimated $8 billion in new tax revenue. That’s according to Nobel Prize Winner Milton Friedman and over 500 other accredited economists.
“We’re representing America’s millions of otherwise law-abiding cannabis consumers who ARE ready, willing, vocal and able to contribute this huge sum to our struggling economy, while providing truly ‘green’ jobs and allowing police to focus on more important priorities,” says Allen St. Pierre, NORML’s Executive Director. “All we ask in exchange for our $14 billion is the right to smoke our pot responsibly and in peace – just in the same way as the millions of daily consumers of alcohol products in our country.”
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
NORML should have a contest for 4/20…
Have people submit their Letters to Congress, demanding cannabis law reform. The people at NORML should choose the top 5 letters – based on eloquence, fact, and emotional impact – and send the winners a “Tax Me” tshirt. Those 5 winners should then go with a NORML official on CNN or some other news network as a “Pot-tallion”, helping to raise awareness.
The only way we’ll get this goal accomplished is to keep the recent momentum going strong!
Absolutely. Every adult American who wants to grow a pot plant and smoke its flowers has the right to do so as free from government interference, licensure, or taxation as one who home-brews beer.
If that American wants to sell pot to someone, it shall be as subject to taxation and regulation as any other commodity in America.
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Barry has already laughed this one off.
How about freedom for free?
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this is a good strategy it will show how many really r apart of this movement to legalize cannibus and hemp