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I wonder if you can write off cannabis products you consume while working, as a business expense. I mean, it's like those that "need" coffee for work, so why not? (lemmy.world)
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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I'm a self employed handyman and medical cannabis patient. If it weren't for the medical cannabis, I wouldn't be able to do my job. Bet your ass I take my pot as a deduction on my schedule c, and I take coffee, and I take lunch. I deduct shit that I have no business deducting, and the only taxes I even pay are to get that sweet, sweet child tax credit.

Odds are the recently defunded and understaffed IRS has better shit to do than comb through my poorly kept books just to bust me for taking an extra couple grand that maybe I shouldn't have.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 28 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Who gets to "write off" coffee? You can't deduct food as business expenses.

Also, pot is an intoxicant. You're being stoned, or drunk, at work is usually frowned upon.

The comparison to coffee is disingenuous. It's like comparing coffee to chocolate - chocolate has stimulants in it, but only an idiot would compare the amount of chemical effect to that of a more powerful stimulant like caffeine.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For you, I'm sure a joint would put you on your ass, high as giraffe ears, for several hours. Presumably during this time you'd be powerless to do anything but eat funyuns and watch Adventure Time on mute while you listen to lo-fi versions of Phish deep cuts.

Xanax is an intoxicant. Do you know how many people are on antianxiety medications? Those people work too.

Cannabis is a medicine. Just because you can't handle it doesn't mean I can't. For me, I get more physically effected by coffee than I do cannabis- admittedly not much more, but still more.

Also you definitely can deduct food and coffee as office expenses, same as pens or file folders.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

Are you in the US? Unless you're self- employed, you can not (legally) deduct food - including coffee.

If you're playing that game, maybe you'll get away with it, but maybe you won't. If you do, you'd better have your paperwork ready - receipts for everything you've deducted - because if you're audited not only will you be fined and have to pay back taxes on ask of the stuff you've been deducting against the rules, but they'll also question every legitimate deduction.

Now, if you have a medical prescription for pot, you can deduct medical expenses - although, if you're itemizing, you have to be spending a shit-ton on pot to equal the standard deduction. You can't take the deduction and itemize your expenses.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I am self-employed, and I have a qualified tax professional do my returns.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

You can write off half a meal a day but I ain't putting pot on my taxes

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago

If your job is reviewing weed, sure.

Also, with it's federal classification, I’d hesitate to create a paper trail.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, writing off coffee for work already sounds pretty risky lol

Though now I want the opposite, if someone has a start up that will provide me free edibles at the office HMU lol

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The startups that give you drugs aren’t worth it. At absolute best it’s a work hard play hard culture.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

Maybe if you work as a pot shop buyer

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Seems unlikely. Seems more likely it could be a medical expense if you have a prescription.

[–] scrumpet@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago

I suppose it might be easier in some areas than others. Like, an extreme might be artist vs surgeon. Truck driver is probably right out. Musicians are good. I mean in that same vein could a wine taster, for instance, write off all the wine all the time?