I assume the people I was with and I all dislike paying taxes although the people I was with and I understand their utmost merit and value to us all as a society. I honestly realize that my taxes pay for the roads that I travel every single day to get to work, plus maintaining the bridge I cross to reach my parents’ house across the bay. Without these taxes, clearly our country would cease to operate overnight. But the truth is that I struggle to barely survive while seeing a lot of my currency disappear before it even reaches my hands every week. It understandably stings when you’re limiting your food choices in the process. I started an awful habit of eating warm tuna weekly for at least one meal because you can find many packs for about one dollar these afternoons, even after inflation numbers increased. The warm tuna being potentially carcinogenic at high quantities, means it’s honestly best that consumption of nitrates be limited if not avoided altogether. However, clearly state and federal taxes are not the only ones that have myself and others distraught. I fear that I will soon be forced to pay cannabis taxes while still being a certified medical cannabis patient in my state. When our state legalized recreational, it enacted a tax on all recreational cannabis sales, but now the state is also discussing a total alteration to our medical cannabis program. Soon I might only have recreational cannabis sales where everyone is paying the recreational cannabis taxes. This idea truly hurts a lot of medical cannabis users who were retaining their cards to avoid the high priced cannabis taxes whenever they’re shopping at the local marijuana stores.