My talk given today at 1:30 PST at North American Cannabis Summit, http://northamericancannabissummit.org, in Los Angeles. summit final nacs_jan_29_2019.
Description
Public health policy for cannabis needs a government revenue component, and taxes on cannabis (or profits from government sales) can help arrive at a price for consumers that both modulates consumption and marginalizes the illegal market. However, a lot of current tax schemes are weak, flawed, and rigid. Early, primitive taxes fail when pre-tax prices collapse, and they inevitably will as the market matures. This session will compare cannabis revenue techniques and a variety of jurisdictions’ revenue laws, explain why many current cannabis taxes do not serve public health, and evaluate possibilities of improving cannabis revenue laws.
The Center for New Revenue 