High Dreams: Taxing Marijuana

According to Rob Hotakaainen, Marijuana dispenser executive director of Port Health Center, De Angelo is the second largest retail taxpayer in Oakland and said that he paid the city more than $ 5 million last year (Hotakaenen). He said, "We were a drug trafficking organization, so we were denied all deductions." Mercury journalist California San Jose Mercury journalist David Migoya, in all of Marijuana's business, retailers reach an agreement with the bank, began signing commercial paper, be actively accepting real estate and related industries It will become like. Financial institutions open their doors

According to the Cannabis Tax Act of 1937 (MTA; P.L. 75-238), the federal government prohibited cannabis informally. The MTA has strict regulations that require a high transfer tax stamp every sale of marijuana. However, these stamps are rarely issued by the federal government. Soon after the adoption of 25 MTAs, marijuana will be illegal in all states. The enforcement of the drug law is mainly the responsibility of the local police, and the FBN occasionally supports law enforcement 26. Due to limited and reduced funds during the Great Depression, this began in the US in the 1930s after the 1929 stock market crash. , The FBN budget and the amount of anesthetic are decreasing and remain low for many years.

First, according to Federal law, any kind of marijuana, whether for medical or recreational purposes, is illegal. In 1937, when Congress passed the Cannabis Tax Code, the federal government first regulated marijuana. Like the Harison Anesthesia Act of 1914, Congress thinks that taxation and regulation of drugs are not banned, they are less susceptible to legal problems. Therefore, the 1937 law is a measure of income on the surface. As the "Harrison Act" uses taxes and regulations that actually prohibit the use of morphine like heroin, the "marijuana tax law" basically prohibits possession or sale of marijuana. Subsequent rigorous measures were taken. In 1952, the Boggs law imposed strict mandatory judgment on crimes including various drugs including marijuana.

1937: Congress passed the "cannabis tax law". The law requires everyone who distributes drugs to maintain and submit detailed records of the transaction, including a test, affidavits and related party's personal information, as a $ 1 nuisance tax on cannabis There. However, this law belongs to "Catch - 22". Because individuals need to present products for the first time in order to obtain tax payment stamps. This is equivalent to conviction. Congress passed the bill based on evidence that marijuana caused madness, crime and death and the public's perception.