Legal in AK
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Well you know more about it than I do. Didn't know underagers or spice were aledgedly involved. I thought it was just about cannabis, sold to adults, in which case it seems to me that it should be treated by state agencies as a rule violation, with a fine, like if a farmer sold his potatoes wrongly, or before they created potato regulations.
But yeah underage is different.
26 U.S.C. § 5602 provides that you may face up to five years in federal prison and up to $10,000 in fines for distilling. Don't forget the $2.14 federal tax, as well as the $12.80 in state taxes per half gallon. Growing and selling unregulated marijuana is no different, both hold felony penalties. Why should someone pay for a license, and pay the thousands in taxes if the state isn't going to enforce rules and let people do whatever they want? How will the state make any revenue then? How is what they are doing any different?My point is addressed by the Marijuana Control Board in this morning's Anchorage Dispatch News:
SNIP:
"On Thursday, civil fines came up again, and the board added wording that would allow not just businesses but licensees or people to be fined civilly, or have their licenses revoked and marijuana seized...
A person or business illegally selling marijuana would face a $5,000 fine for each sale under the proposed regulations.
Businesses that violate license provisions could be fined up to $10,000 for the first violation and up to $50,000 for the third violation...
Now, the entirety of the regulations -- three sets that define everything from packaging requirements to the distance a business must be from a school -- will go back out before the public for one last chance to comment."
Now that's what I'm talking about. CIVIL charges are much more appropriate than CRIMINAL charges for people who are dealing with a no-longer illegal substance, for the violator, the tax payer and society in general.
http://www.adn.com/article/20150924/pot-social-club-ban-remains-under-proposed-marijuana-control-board-rules
There's also much more to these 3 shady characters than "just selling cannabis".
Rocky should have his kids taken away, his former employees have testified that Rocky will blow through a box of whip its all by himself. The guy is a drug dealing crackhead and nothing more.
The state has also made it illegal to sell any other item besides cannabis products in a dispensary. Rocky has ignored literally every regulation that the people of Alaska VOTED for.
Asking your 50,000+ Facebook fans to verbally, and sexually harass members of the Alaska cannabis community(the community which only Charlo represents apparently)
Selling fake "CBD" weed for $700/oz.
Let's not forget her fake "non-profit" which she is always soliciting donations for(without telling people that her non-profit status is pending and will probably be rejected) Then she uses this money to travel for her "cause" which is really her just showing up to party and do drugs. If you check her instagram, her videos lately have shown her hating on Alaska and talking about how "unaccepting" it is. She also likes to make everything about her skin color and how everyone except her is a racist.
She leaves fake reviews for any competing business all while having her own censored.
The people she hangs out with are also very sketchy, she originally was working with her family, but they all bounced once they got sick of her.
Also there are the 2 "Cannabis Cup" events she has "hosted" where she took entry money, and medicine, and never put on the event, nor did she give it back to people. She simply stole medicine and money from the Alaska cannabis community to help fund her plastic surgery(she's been getting ALOT of work done lately).
Also good luck finding a landlord that wants to rent to you, after seeing the destruction Charlo left at the Kodiak Bar, nobody is going to want to rent to ANY cannabis business. This will surely make it harder to find real estate to rent, and will also jack up the price on any remaining properties.
I could go on and on about all the shit these people have been doing, but the biggest issue I have is none of them want to pay taxes. They want to utilize public roads to conduct their business, but they don't want to pay anything into the system.