It has been a year since marijuana was legalized and state government was expected 10 million dollar tax from legalization movement, but they only got half of it and they’re facing unexpected situation.
We see lots of people enjoying smoking marijuana and celebrating the new movement everywhere on internet, but seller is in a difficult situation.
For example, even though city of Los Angeles legalized for seller to sell recreational marijuana, they are not allowed to sell in the local area such as Beverly Hills, so legalization doesn’t mean sellers are able to do business ANYWHERE in the states where legalized.
Another reason why the state government ended up getting only half of the tax that they were expected is because they charge so much tax for us to have a recreational marijuana shop.
They must pay lots of different kinds of tax to the state of California, City of Los Angeles, and local area. Therefore, they were expected for people to open more than 6000 dispensary stores, but there are only 547 shops after one year of legalization.
Marijuana users in LA say that they can get the stuff way cheaper in blackmarket, so lots of under the table dispensaries are still in business for sure for those wants to pay less tax.
