Josh Scandlen Podcast

Lots of good stuff across the board from election day. Maine, Colorado, Florida, Washington state even passed either good initiatives or defeated bad ones. The march towards more liberalization on weed moves ahead. I am very happy to see this too. Unfortunately, the good folks in North Dakota weren’t quite ready to go all in. But even their ballot, which would have legalized entirely didn’t go down in too big a way not to be revisited. My concern on legalization, of course, is the folks who say “legalize it and tax it.” Yeah, that has done wonders for the black market on cigarettes. If you’re going to legalize you don’t do it for tax revenue. You do it for the peace and safety it creates. Never mind the freedom for people to engage in their choice of behaviors, as long as it doesn’t impact another’s ability to engage in his/her own choices. Washington state defeated, once again, their silly carbon tax initiative. Again, the idea CO2 is EVIL boggles the mind. But the Washington state law was even more si