Frustrated by the tax-fueled rising costs of cigarettes, a Brooklyn woman has developed a private tobacco garden to feed her addiction frugally. She buys her seeds for $2 online and plants her tobacco along with roses and geraniums in her back yard. She expects to yield a total of 45 cartons of cigarettes from crops planted in 2009 and last year, saving her $5,000 from what she'd pay at retail.
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4 comments:
I hope they do not ask for a permit or otherwise tax her.
I'm not positive but I think it's against the law to grow tobbaco in Maryland.
Doesn't make much sense when you can buy the retail smokes with arsenic and many other additives.
It's all about the tax.
If its not against the law now, you can bet there is a politician RIGHT NOW contemplating a bill to either outlaw it (make it a felony?) or tax it if you grow it.
It is not against the law to grow tobacco in Maryland or anywhere else in the US. The catch is that you can't sell it. Same with peanuts, mohair, and hops. These commodities are controlled by "Federal Marketing Orders", along with several other items. Grow all you want, just can't sell it.
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