The promise of legalized pot is high times for users, business people, and state coffers. But the reality is proving to be quite different.
Sunday on Full Measure, we continue our ongoing coverage investigating what’s really happening in states that legalize recreational marijuana.
This week, we visit one of the first states to give the green light to cannabis: Oregon.
We get some surprising assessments from pot advocates.
Also Sunday, Scott Thuman will interview three men who are experts in ferreting out waste of taxpayer money.
They’ll take measure of DOGE’s progress in the first weeks of the second Trump administration and give ideas on where the axe should fall next.
And Lisa Fletcher sets out to answer new ethical and legal questions raised by realistic looking A.I. images and even humanoid robots.
Is it a crime to commit sex abuse on children or others if they aren’t really people?
See you Sunday!
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Good coverage on Full Measure regarding the legal status of marijuana. There are 2 ways to create a black market in consumer goods like pot. The first is outright prohibition of such a product, and the other is a scheme in which any given product is taxed to the point that a black market evolves to avoid the tax man. Cigarettes in NYC and perhaps other jurisdictions follow that model. Though cigarettes are legal in NYC, they are taxed to the point that smuggling in untaxed cigarettes becomes lucrative.
It’s the same with so many marijuana schemes, including Colorada and Oregon, as cited in the FM article. They didn’t really legalize pot, they created a system similar, but with taxes so high that nobody in the legal structure can make any money.