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Webpage: http://drugsense.org/url/XZnyMUrR
Pubdate: Tue, 09 Jun 2015
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
Copyright: 2015 The Cincinnati Enquirer
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/aeNtfDqb
Website: http://www.cincinnati.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/86
Author: Chris Stock
Note: Chris Stock is a Cincinnati attorney and the principal author
of the ResponsibleOhio amendment.
IGNORE LEGAL POT MISTRUTHS
There are some misperceptions about how marijuana legalization has
rolled out in Colorado, as shown in the op-ed "Legal pot? Look at
Colorado before leaping" ( May 15 ). Anderson Township resident John M.
Kunst Jr., who spends considerable time in Colorado, makes a number
of off-base claims about the situation there since the 2012 passage
of an initiative legalizing marijuana. As principal author of
ResponsibleOhio's ballot initiative, which if passed by Ohio voters
this fall would legalize marijuana for personal and medicinal, I
offer these point-by-point responses.
Kunst: In Colorado "the black market appears to be thriving because
legal weed is not cheap: $200 an ounce plus sales and huge excise taxes."
ResponsibleOhio's response: According to priceofweed.com, a
crowd-sourced marijuana pricing site on which a prominent RAND
Corporation study recently relied, the average black market price of
marijuana in Colorado is $218.91 per ounce, higher than the
"expensive" retail price that Kunst claims is driving Colorado buyers
to the black market. Colorado's black market accounts for just 5
percent of all the marijuana purchased there not enough market share
to be considered "thriving," especially since marijuana stores have
only been open in Colorado since January.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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