Posted on 10/15/2010 10:22:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
They already have switched to harder drugs. Marijuana is virtually legal right now under the medical marijuana law we have. Los Angeles city, for example, has hundreds of “clinics” where people with a permit from their doctor ($40 office visit, good for a year) can buy near unlimited amounts (4 ounces per store per visit is the generally agreed upon limit, but, there is no stopping you from going to the next store down the block to buy 4 more ounces, or, coming back the next day to buy more...) and indeed many of these places will sell to anybody with or without a permit.
Because pot is so easy to come by (anyone who wants it either gets a permit, or knows someone who has a permit, it is ubiquitous to the degree that those who want it can easily get it) that the old pot dealers are now cocaine dealers and pill pushers.
Sb1070 fight proves that the liberals believe the Fed has the right to stop legalization of pot.
You are wrong about pot dealers being out of business in CA. The stuff still costs about 2 to 3 hundred per ounce, regardless of the medical MJ law. It isn't that easy to get the card and many card holders sell it to friends and others. This will stop under Prop 19. The MJ card holder can have up to 6 plants and a guy living close to me has a card and the plants growing openly in his yard. He sells it and, of course, uses it himself.
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