>>>>>Now if all the other states would follow this lead perhaps some of the state's financial woes would go away...
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>>>>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33989916/ns/us_news-life/
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>>>>How does it work. Can anybody just walk into a dispenser and get it, or does it require a prescription? If it needs a prescription, then it's a prescription drug and I don't see how they could call it anything else. If not, then fair enough.
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>>>It's my understanding that you're supposed to have a prescription - but I'm not 100% positive if that is the case in Colorado (but I'm 99.9% sure). What they decided, in this case, is that medical marijuana is considered personal property that can be taxed and shouldn't be treated like prescription drugs, which are tax exempt....so it seems like a double-standard if you ask me - ... but hey its better than outlawing it. Next question I would ask is if these dispensaries are for-profit or are supposed to be non-profit, and what are the tax implications of that.
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>>In Colorado, a prescription is required for medical marijuana.
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>hmmm...so you have to have a prescription to get it, but they want to tax it because it's not a prescription drug. Interesting...talk about having your cake and eating it too...geeze.

I really dislike this idea. If a tax is implemented, then it should be at the grower/wholesale point. That would still raise prices but I'm not sure you can tax anything at the prescription/purchase level. Besides that, I really dislike the tax idea completely because most of the medical prescriptions are for cancer patients. It just seems plain WRONG to add a tax for patients already suffering.