CALIFORNIA: Bill would legalize, tax marijuana

Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/23/9 | Jim Sanders

[DigitalVideoDude]

Ladders...

[green iguana]

Yeah, the Feds have continued to enforce Federal laws in states that have made local law exceptions for medical marijuana. But they don’t have the resources to even go after all of the medical users. If anyone in the state could sell/buy pot, the Feds would be overwhelmed.

[capt. norm]

Hahaha like the Federal Gov’t is going to allow a State’s Right such as this?

Obama has already told the narcs to slack off on those who use it medicinally in California....so he'll probably go ahead and OK this since it brings in $$$ to the govt.

[rhombus]

I’m sure it’s five o’ clock somewhere.

FIVE O'clock? Now you tell me. All these years I thought it was noon we had to wait for... ;-)

[dragnet2]

Over indulging in anything is not good.

But I'll tell ya what, if given a choice, I rather be on a freeway with pot smokers than be on a highway full of falling down drunks. Drunks kill a whole lot of people every single week.

Fact is, cemeteries are full of those killed in alcohol related incidents. Both innocent and the guilty.

[Mojave]

California can become the Freetown Christiana (Fristaden Christiania), the pride of pothead civilization.

[bassmaner]

This could be the handbook on how to destroy a civilization though.

I guess 'civilization' as you know it began in 1937, and Harry Anslinger was one of our Founding Fathers.

[Nachum]

Well, at least tax the heck out of it then!

[rhombus]

John Galt smokes weed out of a bong made from Reardon metal.

[tubebender]

This will devastate the economies of Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties and it will cost a Billion dollars to bail them out. They could get five billion instantly by allowing drilling off shore...

[green iguana]

“This will devastate the economies of Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties”

Why?

[bassmaner]

ROFLMAO!

[SouthernmostFreeper]

If it is legal they will grow it and you can tax it.
If it is illegal, they will grow it anyway and you won’t tax it.
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[RKV]

The war on some drugs costs more than it benefits. Better to treat addicts (and cheaper) than to imprison them. That said, I can’t recommend using the stuff.

[dmz]

Now the Obamessiah is the hope of the dopers too.
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LOL. Those of us choosing to indulge in the evil weed from time to time don’t need no stinkin’ hope. That’s a farce.

What you antis just don’t seem to realize is that we have all the reefer we need at affordable prices in this country already. IT GROWS LIKE A WEED!!!! The laws against it are de facto meaningless. And have been for decades.

And unless you are in the business of selling kilos at a time, you paid more for your last moving violation in your car than someone busted for possessing a personal stash. And your insurance went up. The doper got PBJ.

[capt. norm]

Genesis 1:29 "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth.".

I'm not going to try and second-guess the Almighty as to whether or not it should be legal.

[Mojave]

I’m more concerned about their baby-killing tendencies

The abortuaries could give out a bag of pot for every baby killed. The liberals would love it!

[byteback]

Combine this with a snack tax and we’ll be back on track.

[2001convSVT]

And with the tax money that rolls in, the state will be running a surplus.

[bassmaner]

Now the Obamessiah is the hope of the dopers too.

Not a chance. Look for the Feds to crack down harder than ever ... nothing represents the mailed fist of raw government power more than the War on Drugs.