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posted Aug 28, 2009
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Don’t Tax Medical Marijuana
Supporters of medicinal marijuana initiatives often use the selling point that it could produce tax revenues. A cartoon in a recent issue of this paper even incorporated that idea [May/June 2009]. This tactic seems to be done to appeal to greed-ball public officials who might be tempted to do anything to get regressive tax money to help their corporate golf partners evade legitimate progressive income taxation.
Medicine, medical supplies like wheel-chairs and crutches and so forth, along with basic foods and other necessities, ought never be thought of as taxable. The progressive step of legitimizing medicinal cannabis is incompatible with letting the idea of regressive taxes into the picture.
John Jonik
Questions About Asbestos?
As you may know, there has recently been a lot of coverage surrounding the EPA announcing a Public Health Emergency in Libby Montana, with a movement to aggressively clean up and assist the area residents. In Libby, around 274 people have died from asbestos exposure related diseases, and that number is only growing as 17% of the population there have pleural abnormalities because of asbestos exposure. It’s a problem that’s not just centralized in Montana, either, as Vermont has recently been in the news for asbestos issues, and it is becoming a world wide issue as we begin to understand the devastating effects it can have.
Many people are just beginning to hear about asbestos and may not truly understand the dangers surrounding it, as it is the cause of a deadly cancer where there is no known cure, mesothelioma. Asbestos.net (The Asbestos & Mesothelimoa Cancer Resource Center) provides people with in-depth information regarding asbestos and all of the issues that surround it. We are an Oncologist-reviewed site, and have accompanying videos on many of the pages to help people understand more about treatment options and other asbestos related information.
Molly MacIntyre
The Asbestos & Mesothelioma Resource Center