{"id":692382,"date":"2010-03-16T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/expert-federal-law-will-hamper-states-efforts-tax-marijuana-40905\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:18:33","slug":"expert-federal-law-will-hamper-states%c2%92-efforts-to-taxmarijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692382","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Federal Law Will Hamper States\u0092 Efforts To Tax*Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.15.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Rolling%2Ba%2Bjoint_1961_19664991_0_0_7050253_300.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>As the debate continues on legalizing and taxing marijuana in the climate of growing budget deficits, a Vanderbilt University Law School professor has said that although the proposal sounds simple, there are too many legal hurdles for it to work.<\/p>\n<p> In a new paper, professor Robert Mikos wrote that the federal ban on marijuana would cripple a state&#8217;s ability to collect taxes because it encourages marijuana distributors to remain small and continue to operate underground. Moreover, it prevents states from being able to monitor or tax the distributors.<\/p>\n<p> Mikos also pointed out that even if states could successfully monitor marijuana distributors, any information they collected could be used by federal law enforcement to prosecute dealers. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;Federal law enforcement officials could use any information the states gather to track down and sanction marijuana distributors,&quot; he said, adding that &quot;the federal ban would thus encourage distributors to evade state tax collectors.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> According to Vanderbilt University, activists in states such as California who advocate legalizing marijuana claim the move could generate more than a billion dollars and save millions more by reducing law enforcement costs on prohibition enforcement.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/expert-federal-law-will-hamper-states-efforts-to-tax-marijuana-19664991\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;uana-19664991\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.15.10 07:01 PM As the debate continues on legalizing and taxing marijuana in the climate of growing budget deficits, a Vanderbilt University Law School professor has said that although the proposal sounds simple, there are too many legal hurdles for it to work. In a new paper, professor Robert Mikos wrote that the federal ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U7s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}