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"After Arizona came up with this brilliant revenue-raising idea, over twenty other states have passed various Marijuana and drug taxes. There are tax stamps for Marijuana, Controlled substances, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, and others. Unfortunately some of the stamps are quite expensive. (They range in price from 35 cents to $4000.00). Some of the expensive ones (according to the State Revenue Department) have never been purchased by anyone. For the first ten years, of the Arizona stamps, 83 sheets of the 1 gram Cannabis stamp were sold, and 3 sheets of the Cannabis 1 ounce stamp were sold. ($10) No one has ever bought any of the Cannabis one kilo, ($352.74) or any of the three controlled substances (1 gram, $8.80; 1 ounce, $250; and1 kilo, $4000). Remember that you have to buy an entire sheet of 50 stamps....
"Since I wrote the above, something interesting has happened. The authorities in Arizona arrested a fellow who was selling marijuana, and he had a license and had put the tax stamps on his "product". A judge decided that if the state sold him a license, they shouldn't arrest him for selling the product so licensed. So he dismissed the charges against the fellow. The last I heard, the state had appealed and the case was still wending its way through court." ... The State of Arizona has since repealed the drug tax law.
On Sale from
Rick Loomis
P.O. 1467
Scottsdale, AZ 85252
Phone: 480-945-6917
"24 hour fax number is the numbers 994 and then 1170 with area code 480"
(NOTE: Our phone area code changed from 602 to 480).
rick at flying buffalo dot com
She also notes that the police have taken the bottom right 2 stamps from each sheet they have to prevent their use as noted in the case above. The significance of these two stamps will hopefully be shown later.
My name is Rob Henak, and I am not a drug dealer. Rather, I am a lawyer specializing in criminal appeals and First Amendment work.
I first became interested in state drug tax stamps when I represented a gentleman charged with a felony because he hadn't bought the necessary tax stamps and attached them to the bag of cocaine he happened to be carrying. I challenged Wisconsin's drug tax law and ultimately convinced the state supreme court to strike it down on self-incrimination grounds. Read Decision
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