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Originally Posted by cherrylula
They are a business. They pay for permits, pay taxes, pay building rental fees, employ people and pay taxes on them, etc etc. Probably pay some sort of insurance. All sorts of expenses to run a business like that. The city profits. $$$$
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You may be surprised.
Technically most or all of the employees should be vollenteers and not paid employees.
Many cities will not issue them a business license, just a Tax ID permit so you can pay sales taxes.
They can pay basic insurance but good luck on finding an insurance company that will cover any aspect of the marijuana itself.
They would typically have to pay a landlord for rent, often this just goes out of town or to wherever the landlord lives.
They do employ legal council and have to use if often. A local club that has only been open 2 weeks its being challenged to move out of the shopping center by all of the other stores in the center.
The city may claim that it causes a rise in crime in such areas that the clubs opperate. Then like I said about all they get to profit on is the sales tax on a medicine - when was the last time you did that?