GOP wants to ban welfare cash at pot shops.

[powderman]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/01/gop-lawmakers-move-to-ban-welfare-money-at-marijuana-dispensaries/
 
 GOP lawmakers move to ban welfare money at marijuana dispensariesPublished March 01, 2014FoxNews.com            Republican lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next week aimed at preventing the misuse of the food stamp funds amid reports that welfare debit cards have been used to withdraw cash at ATMs at marijuana dispensaries in Colorado.
The “Preserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act,” is expected to be introduced on Monday by Colorado Republican Reps. Dave Reichert, Scott Tipton and Cory Gardner, KDVR.com reported.The bill would add pot dispensaries to the current list of locations where states must block welfare electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards from being used for purchases or ATM withdrawals, Reichert’s office told the station.
 
 
KDVR.com reported last week that at least 19 different dispensaries allowed electronic benefits transfer withdrawals inside their pot shops in January. Public records obtained by the station showed 56 transactions, totaling nearly $4,000.
A separate report by National Review Online said the amounts withdrawn ranged from $20 to $400, averaging $85.55. The maximum monthly benefit for the average household receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits is $462.
Last year, Colorado lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting access to welfare benefits at casinos, gun shops, bars, and liquor stores. State lawmakers recently failed to pass legislation that would have prohibited such transactions at pot shops, NRO reported.
 
“It’s time to close this ‘pot shop loophole’ before it gets any bigger,” the lawmakers said in a letter circulated among House lawmakers and obtained by The Colorado Observer.
“This bill does not comment on whether it makes sense for states to legalize the sale of pot, as Colorado and Washington have done,” the lawmakers wrote. “It simply says that, wherever pot is legally sold, welfare recipients shouldn’t be able to readily access welfare funds to pay for it.”
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[twoshooter]

I don't think you get cash withdrawls from food stamp cards.... somebody might buy non-food items like diapers or toilet paper. If it is a cash benefit and whatever they are buying is legal, it is nobodys damn business. You dont want to pay for Obamacare benefits- OK- they are self medicating  with herbal remedies- and paying a buttload of taxes I might add. I suppose you would rather some rich doctor collect medicaid for giving them an Rx for Prozac, then pay the local authorized pusher aka pharmacist , who gets their supply from the cartel of Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Merck Someone shipped their job overseas so they could make an extra dollar on a pair of shoes, then bitched about having to pay unemployment benefits, so they draw welfare, and in their misery- now they bitch about what they buy.
  This is like you burn somebody's house, you don't want to give them any water to put it out, now their house is gone and you are pissed because they are in a tent on their lawn- and that violates the homeowners association rules. 

[magooch]

It's time to go even further and stop all welfare--period.  You don't work, or have a proven disability that prevents you from working, you starve unless you can figure out something for yourself.  If there aren't enough jobs to go around after we kick all the illegal invaders out of the country, then maybe some public works projects could pick up the slack.   But under no condition should there be credit cards issued to those on the dole.

[don29]

darn ole GOP...the nerve of them...wanting folks to work and support themselves... it's no wonder we're in the condition we're in...