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[RFCGloryJC]

AFLW "stars" have started suing for concussion.
Emma Grant is suing the McRae Pies.
In the County Court, no less.
They're seeing stars.

 

[kozi]

Considering alcohol tax generated 8 billion in revenue nationally and Victoria is about 30% of the national population, if pot was taxed at the same rate and use was assumed at just 25% of alcohol use, Victoria would make about 600 million per year or 6 billion over 10 years.

It would become Victoria's 7th biggest revenue generator.

Just needs to be properly regulated.

Most criminal thing about weed is that it was even illegal in the first place when it's a f'ing plant that grows from the ground. Deaths from smoking weed = 0. Violence/domestic abuse from smoking weed = 0. Meanwhile alcohol the #1 cause and no worries.. the most backwards sh*t

They reckon over 50% of the country has smoked it at least a few times. Any law that makes half the population criminals is laughable and doesn't follow any logic

 

[Tigerbob68]

Loved JB like 10 - 15 years ago before they started selling white goods and small appliances

70% music, dvds and games a massive selection of everything and the rest TV’s and stereo equipment

With streaming effectively killing physical movies and music it doesn’t have the variety of everything it used to

Even going back further like 20 years and we only had a handful around
Going to the north land homemaker centre with my old man was always a highlight

You used to be able to go around to the different JB's and would always find some different music to pick up. Most of the suburban ones aren't worth visiting anymore. The two in the city still have a good CD range, they're run by guys that have been with JB in music for years. They have plenty of vinyl too but mostly way too expensive!
I lived in Rosanna for a while years ago, the Northland JB was great to visit!
Prahran is my nearest. Used to get all my new releases there but now they hardly ever get anything new. Very poor cd range, and getting smaller!

 

[Muddiemoose]

You used to be able to go around to the different JB's and would always find some different music to pick up. Most of the suburban ones aren't worth visiting anymore. The two in the city still have a good CD range, they're run by guys that have been with JB in music for years. They have plenty of vinyl too but mostly way too expensive!
I lived in Rosanna for a while years ago, the Northland JB was great to visit!
Prahran is my nearest. Used to get all my new releases there but now they hardly ever get anything new. Very poor cd range, and getting smaller!

100% I think I must of spent hours just going through all the different cds and they would have just about anything you could ever think of

Even at the time being younger and having no money I loved just looking at all the album art and adding things to my wish list

Going to those older stand alone stores was always an experience with the music absolutely pumping with speakers out the front and in store so noisy you could hardly hear anyone talking

 

[DickieKnee]

The guy who started JB started out by selling CDs from his garage.

 

[Ma Xiao Long]

I give that about 6 months to change. It'll happen.

Will be good news for my liver

 

[Rayzorwire]

Most criminal thing about weed is that it was even illegal in the first place when it's a f'ing plant that grows from the ground. Deaths from smoking weed = 0. Violence/domestic abuse from smoking weed = 0. Meanwhile alcohol the #1 cause and no worries.. the most backwards sh*t

It's interesting to contrast the way tobacco and alcohol are prohibited.

You can make your own alcohol at home (as long as it doesn't exceed a level of alcohol you can achieve through fermentation - not distillation), but it's an enormous fine to grow your own tobacco.

It seems cannabis will go down the tobacco road in terms of legislation - you can buy something a corporation has grown and pay a ton of tax on it, but you can't grow your own or it will still be criminalised on some level.

There's something fundamentally immoral with any kind of legislation that legalises medicinal and/or recreational weed, but forces patients/users to pay many thousands of dollars (often to corporations where the profit leaves Australia) to access something they can so easily produce themselves for free.

But that's the endlessly dumb way we do things here.

 

[kozi]

It's interesting to contrast the way tobacco and alcohol are prohibited.

You can make your own alcohol at home (as long as it doesn't exceed a level of alcohol you can achieve through fermentation - not distillation), but it's an enormous fine to grow your own tobacco.

It seems cannabis will go down the tobacco road in terms of legislation - you can buy something a corporation has grown and pay a ton of tax on it, but you can't grow your own or it will still be criminalised on some level.

There's something fundamentally immoral with any kind of legislation that legalises medicinal and/or recreational weed, but forces patients/users to pay many thousands of dollars (often to corporations where the profit leaves Australia) to access something they can so easily produce themselves for free.

But that's the endlessly dumb way we do things here.

From what I read the framework they've put together is based on how Canada have gone about it. You can grow up to 4 plants there

 

[Rayzorwire]

From what I read the framework they've put together is based on how Canada have gone about it. You can grow up to 4 plants there

Is that the Victorian legislation?

 

[DickieKnee]

From what I read the framework they've put together is based on how Canada have gone about it. You can grow up to 4 plants there

I can't see that with our govts, they'd want a cut if they legalized it. In the US where it's legalized you need a special license to grow, then there's taxes on the final sale.

 

[DickieKnee]

From what I read the framework they've put together is based on how Canada have gone about it. You can grow up to 4 plants there

I can't see that with our govts, they'd want a cut if they legalized it. In the US where it's legalized you need a special license to grow, then there's taxes on the final sale.

 

[kozi]

Is that the Victorian legislation?

Parliamentary budget office put it together. Looks like it'll be nation wide laws for it

 

[DickieKnee]

Parliamentary budget office put it together. Looks like it'll be nation wide laws for it

I heard a while ago there's numbers in the Senate to pass it if Labor bring it in.

 

[Rayzorwire]

Parliamentary budget office put it together. Looks like it'll be nation wide laws for it

That'd be quite fair if they also took Canada's approach on medicinal users being able to grow as many plants as they need to cover their prescription - I believe that can be as high as 20 plants in some cases.

I've had concerns thay'd so something just plain weird like Canberra - where of all places they force you to grow outside and it's illegal to buy or supply clones or seeds (AFAIK).

I can't see that with our govts, they'd want a cut if they legalized it.

Yeah, I'm similarly cynical, but you never know, the precedent is there with some of Canada's more sensible measures.

 

[SumTingWong]

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Imagine if we had this, but with VB, Carlton Draught, maybe Red Rooster. It’s actually a joke how behind we are in this country

That's exactly who was serving me beer in Japan while I was watching the Hanshin Tiger in Osaka

 

[kozi]

I can't see that with our govts, they'd want a cut if they legalized it. In the US where it's legalized you need a special license to grow, then there's taxes on the final sale.

I reckon the majority of bud consumed will still be store bought and taxed anyway. Most can't be assed growing and it's not that expensive to buy. They'll take a hit with some people growing but it's not much if the tax $ being raked in overseas is anything to go by in places where it's legal to grow

 

[lllscroatlll]

 

[lllscroatlll]

compressed af lmao

 

[DickieKnee]

I reckon the majority of bud consumed will still be store bought and taxed anyway. Most can't be assed growing and it's not that expensive to buy. They'll take a hit with some people growing but it's not much if the tax $ being raked in overseas is anything to go by in places where it's legal to grow

Yeah you are probably right. I know someone in Arizona who buys from the stores since it became legal. He loves trying out all the different strains.

 

[Groupie_]

The guy who started JB started out by selling CDs from his garage.

wouldve been selling hash too

 

[Groupie_]

campaigner is still going strong at 106 farrk me

 

[biaseddustyfan]

campaigner is still going strong at 106 farrk me


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looks like whateley

 

[Groupie_]

looks like whateley

bit of tommy hafey in him

 

[kozi]

wouldve been selling hash too

"CD's"

 

[Groupie_]

"CD's"

did anyone have a cd in 1974

theres the proof