Las Vegas & marijuana
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May 1st, 2017 at 4:09:35 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 | Last week, the Nevada Senate passed Bill 236.
Will Jeff Sessions do anything to punish Nevada? |
June 5th, 2017 at 9:34:08 AM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 | Nevada holds the distinction of being the only state to set up retail sales of recreational pot within just 8 months of the passage of a ballot initiative. No other state has been so speedy. The plan was for retail sales to begin on July 1, 2017. But there has been a speed bump, and it looks like there might be a delay due to a lawsuit by Nevada's wholesale liquor distributors who were originally granted a monopoly on distributing marijuana in the state.
Makes me wonder if the liquor distributors are taking a risk: would the U.S. Department of Treasury (which oversees the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) revoke their liquor license? Plenty of banks are worried that if they offer banking services to marijuana businesses that they could get in trouble with the Feds.
In other words, Governor Sandoval's marijuana taxation scheme entails that the state's Department of Taxation collect $70 million in cash. |
June 5th, 2017 at 9:45:43 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Are they federally licensed? Or is that a state license? What would Sheriff Lamb do? The President is a fink. |
June 5th, 2017 at 1:17:42 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
Yes, alcohol wholesalers & distributers must obtain a license from the federal government. Here's the clause from the Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's website:
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June 5th, 2017 at 1:22:09 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Thanks. Here in PA there is only one seller of wine and distilled beverages. I think the state licenses beer, I never heard of a federal license for that but I am talking retail not wholesale. The President is a fink. |
June 5th, 2017 at 1:47:21 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
In MI you can buy beer and wine in every gas station store and even liquor in a lot of them. In a 4 mile radius of my house I buy hard liquor in a dozen places and beer and wine in 2 dozen. God bless America. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 5th, 2017 at 2:01:13 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Beer is loosening up here, though you mostly have to go to a beer distrubutor, some are as nice as a grocery store and some are just a pull-in depot where you order at a counter of sorts. Wine and spirits at what us older folks call a "State Store." Years ago they were Soviet-like. See a sign for one in "Slap Shot" when they are walking in the town square. Bars might like it since no bar can get a volume discount, same price for you or me as the highest volume bar in town. The President is a fink. |
June 5th, 2017 at 2:05:31 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The wine section of some grocery stores is a wonderland of hundreds of different wines, set in it's own secluded area. A lot of gas station stores have huge walk in beer coolers where the temp is 40 all the time and there is 400 sq ft of nothing but ice cold beer in every shape and size. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 5th, 2017 at 2:12:28 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
I recognize that there are a million examples of the federal government being inconsistent, contradictory, hypocritical and/or downright schizophrenic. But consider it: there are currently over 11,500 inmates doing time in federal prisons for marijuana offenses with an average sentence of 88 months. And yet that same federal government will knowlingly be issuing liquor licenses to Nevada booze trucks filled with marijuana. And let's be realistic: those trucks won't be distributing ounces of marijuana... they'll be distributing pounds of dope. Daily. And the customers won't be cancer patients on chemo. They'll be tourists & frat boys getting stoned on vacation in Las Vegas. |
June 5th, 2017 at 2:17:36 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Wine has loosened up a little, and I mean a flipping little. Wineries could for years sell at their winery and some had a small store. Otherwise the State Store. Under 30 folks need "state store" explained since the signs changed years ago. Us older folks remember. On one hand I do give them high marks for having clean, well-lit stores. The employees have been of help 99% of the time, the 1% being a stumper question. Only once were they a little rude, when I asked if they had Trump wine. A more senior employee eventually helped on that one, and they shipped it halfway across the state for me to pick up. I had to wait weeks as it went from store to store as they shipped other things, but I was in no hurry. They did that FREE. The President is a fink. |