{"id":432493,"date":"2010-03-15T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/expert-federal-law-will-hamper-states-efforts-to-tax-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:48","slug":"expert-federal-law-will-hamper-states%e2%80%99-efforts-to-tax%c2%a0marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432493","title":{"rendered":"Expert: Federal Law Will Hamper States\u2019 Efforts To Tax\u00a0Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Rolling+a+joint_1961_19664991_0_0_7050253_300.jpg\" alt=\"Federal law will hamper states' efforts to tax marijuana, expert says  \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">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 \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19664991-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19664991\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 on marijuana would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}