I wonder how long before New Mexico Republicans draft a bill making use of tax money for UBI illegal.
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I am not a citizen of New Mexico, but I cannot begin to tell you how fulfilled I would feel to learn that my high was lifting others up somehow.
We shouldn't need to be shaking down weed stores/smokers for basic human welfare. It's just robbing peter to pay paul.
Tax the billionaires, corporations, etc.
I've been saying for years governments need to switch from fighting drugs to taxing drugs. If you authorise growers with permits and sell under set conditions you can earn what criminals earn and also save loads of money on police. You'd probably still need law enforcement for the really hardcore stuff since it won't prevent regular addicts turning into junkies, but at least you have control over gateway drugs like weed and mdma in a similar way as you have control over alcohol and nicotine. The current system is broken and expensive. I am sober 8 years, I am not saving this because I think drugs are a good thing and am also not saying this so I can use drugs with less hassle.
I have yet to find a paywalled article, where putting archive.is/ in front of the link, doesn't solve that problem.
Doing that for this article, gave me this link: https://archive.md/KBTlE
Although in the case of this article, you'll have to request the desktop version, if you're using a phone, because otherwise their Read Next box will cover some of the text at the end.
The Tesseract front end for lemmy lets you get one of several archive site links for any posted article with 2 clicks, if you haven’t tried it yet. I think your instance admin has to (install? enable?) it, but it’s worth it just for that IMO
What families are receiving it? Is it a qualification? Or a lottery.?
The city first approved the $4.02 million basic income plan in March. City revenue from marijuana sales is contributing more than $2 million to that total, according to a city press release.
The program is providing the $750 monthly payments to 80 families in two districts where students struggle with low academic performance. The city will also offer financial counseling to the families.
So much for no strings attached.
Hear me out, cut out a bunch of middlemen and give me a shit ton of free weed.
Maybe I should move to New Mexico and let the dopers pay for my cooler drugs
Yeah, but does anybody want to talk about all the fucking pesticides that are in this government weed? Just Libturd Solutions. Don't get me wrong, I smoke weed. I'm just saying. Grow your own. Stop doing extracts. Vape if you want to be safe. Nothing like the Yankee managing perception making a good thing bad. But I guess I'll eat the slop off the floor because that's the only thing that I got.
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