Dear Members of the New Hampshire Commission to Study with the Purpose of Proposing Legislation, State-Controlled Sale of Cannabis and Cannabis Products:
Some of you support state retailing of cannabis, as I tend to do for my state of North Carolina. Some of you strike the balance differently and oppose state retailing. (Louisiana’s owning and selling cannabis – through the state’s two land grant universities – makes me think that federal illegality is not a practical problem. https://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals/administration/about-us/vice-president-dean-office/Medical%20Marijuana;http://www.suagcenter.com/news/4279.)
The Center for New Revenue, a North Carolina non-profit that I head up, is looking at how much revenue state sales might bring in for North Carolina – over and above taxes. As a cannabis policy researcher interested in government retailing, I wonder if you can correct any mistakes I am making in thinking about revenue from that “public option.”
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