Maine slaps 7% tax on pot brownies sold to medical marijuana patients

Free it......and tax it.

There are so many ways that the economy can be helped besides taxing medicines. Our economy has become so comfortable with running itself on the backs of the needy that there seems to be no other option. Labor should not be taxed, interest income should. Labor built this country,not wall street gambling, but when the wealthy make the laws, don't expect any sympathy from them regarding our issues, it's just easier to put the world on our shoulders and tell us "carry on"!

How can a state tax something which the fed considers illegal?
The fed supercedes and trumps any state law.

Really, this stuff needs to be sold as a "controlled substance" and not be illegal.
Then they can tax the hell out of it for all I care. It's not something I'm ever going to use or need.

This is what we have all been saying for years. Tax it.Tax it. Tax it.

In Oregon, medical marijuana dispensaries have not yet passed. However, in spite of that, the overproduction of cannabis in this state had forced the price of an oz of cannabis from its high of $500 once to between $125 and $150.

This undercuts the Drug Cartels from Mexico and down south...they can't compete with their overpriced product and their inferior quality. This is becoming a proven strategy to battle the cartels and why legalization at the national level is the best option.

REPEAL THE MARIJUANA STAMP ACT!!!

I have no problem with this tax while this medicine is still considered illegal. You want to lose the tax? Put some effort into getting this plant legalized.

Always picking on the poor ... tax the rich instead !

If that's what it takes to keep moving the issue forward then that's what it takes. We can fight the "Taxing Medicine" issue after we have it legalized.

The Native American tribes have been smoking it for centuries and were healthy until we gave them diseased blankets.
When you legalize it for all then tax it but not for medical use.

There shouldn't be a disproportionate tax on the medical marijuana. That's not fair. Medicine is medicine. Tax the rich! I just wish the rest of the states would catch on to medical marijuana!

makes sense

I`d pay the 7% if I just get some. Say what you will but theres nothing better for pain than good old Mary jane!I can attest to that fact!

All things considered the residents of Maine should be grateful they're able to buy it at all. Most states don't allow it.

But I disagree with the tax on it going to the consumer. It's a commodity - it SHOULD be taxed, but the suppliers should be the ones paying it - not the patients.

Course, it works out the same way as far as how much you're paying; still it IS medicine and the patients shouldn't be taxed.

Good find, KB

I am happy that marijuana is available to patients.
IMO if marijuana is sold as a medicine I don't think it should not be taxed.
When we finally legalize marijuana for all people to purchase just like alcohol, then it should be taxed.

When they tax you form it they can not arrest you for it because that is what makes it illegal. Not paying the tax. so in short they are doing it a favor without knowing it.

7%, that's not too bad

Maine slaps 7% tax on pot brownies sold to medical marijuana patients

"Heh, I am Happy just smoking it with out paying any Taxes, either way this is a Divided Issue, on one Hand I am glad that they are helping their economy by taxing and on the other hand I agree that Medicine should Not be Taxed, what are your thoughts???