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Randy Weinberg, convicted of selling pain pills in New London, claimed that the obscure tax law is selectively enforced and inconsequential in terms of collecting revenue. The purpose of the law, he argued, is to punish drug dealers twice - once at conviction and later with exorbitant interest and penalty charges for failing to obtain state tax stamps for their illegal narcotics.

It requires gangsters and other drug dealers to appear at the state Department of Revenue Services to pay a tax on their inventories – on the heroin, cocaine, marijuana, stolen pain pills and other illicit substances they intend to sell illegally.