Hey, idea here: Since CA has successfully -- for the most part -- spit in the face of the Feds about the marijuana laws for years, how's 'bout CA passing legalization finally to get the state's cash crop producing tax revenues? They could charge the same street price and pocket most of the profits instead of, you know, 10 Mexican-mafiosos and one white guy getting all the middleman profits.
They've softened up the Feds who now only do token raids in CA. I'm told that in CA there's a sprinkling of vending machines on the street that'll dispense the dope right there to ya even if a cop is standing next to you who'll do nothing. So that's pretty in-your-face, right now, and legalization would only seem to be a "bit more." I guess Prop 15ers can have about three pounds of the stuff at any moment whereas even a seed in other states has at times put folks away for LIFE. With Obama and Phelps being the most recent "high" profilers who have added even more legitimacy to the use, it looks to be a done deal if Schwartzy goes for it....himself a once-upon-a-time-user. The bad news: if passed, the law will draw all the smokers to CA and there's goes the whole west coast into the drink from the added weight. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > Fairfield Lifer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > > > > >> Fairfield Lifer wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>> The first big shoe of the Republican Great Depression falls. Things > >>>> are about to get interesting here. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> http://rawstory.com/news/2008/California_goes_broke_halts_3.5_billion_0202.html > >> > >>>> > >>> Come now. This is Obama's watch. It's the Democratic Great Depression. > >>> We've named problems after the current administration before. > >>> > >> LOL! Nope all the result of 30 years of Reaganomics. Obama has nothing > >> to do with it. I don't recall that the Great Depression of the 1930's > >> was named The Democratic Great Depression. It too had to do with bad > >> Republican policies. Trickle down just made us all peons. > >> > > > > > > A foreigner pegged it really well on Slashdot.org in a discussion on H1Bs. > > Year after year the US kept preaching free trade. Year after year it was a > > race to the bottom. Give up protection of your economy in favor of the free > > flow of commerce. Each step along the way a new country became poorer. > > Finally it's the US's turn to visit the bottom. > > > > It was so gradual in the US that people just didn't seem to notice. Both > > parents had to work to keep the household afloat where before they didn't. > > Actually, it was packaged masterfully. Packaged in terms of womens rights > > and feminism. It wasn't that women /had/ to work, though really they did, > > it was that they had to be fulfilled as women and have the same rights as > > men. And men worked. > > > > Now comes the flood of posts proclaiming that the US should not be richer > > than other nations. If there are poor subsistence farmers in India or Africa > > then the US should not expect to have the economy it used to have. Share the > > poverty. Except of course of the monied class. Predictable as Spring rain. > The US is 7% of the worlds population and yet consumed 25% of the it's > resources. The bill had to become due sometime. But we lived high on > the hog, bought gas guzzling cars and monster homes "because we could" > when people should have bought within their means. We may just wind up > living in a simpler world somewhat resembling the 1970s but with some of > the technology we've created in the meantimes. Yup, free trade simply > meant the rich pillaging and plundering so they could still be kings of > the hill. Bastards. >
