Smoke dope and save the state of California, dude

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/smoke-dope-and-save-the-state-of-california-dude-1740231.html

Activists fund TV ads that claim legalising drug could solve financial crisis

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles


It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of legalised marijuana are making perhaps their most extravagant claim yet: that the drug can solve California's spiralling financial crisis.

A series of television ads was launched yesterday supporting a bill by Democratic assemblyman Tom Ammiano that would regulate and tax the sale of marijuana in the Golden State, where Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is in a $26bn (£15.9bn) black hole.

[Oceansaway]

1. parking meter...

think i'll eater.....


munchie time......

[tridim]

2. Good article, horrible title

"Dope" is a drug war word.

[TahitiNut]

3. It's a lot older than that.

:shrug:

[Oceansaway]

4. agree....but dope sounds like

rope (hemp) and hope...

and theres no hope without dope.....



now pass me the brownies !!

[Egalitariat]

5. California's been fiscally mismanaged for the last 2 decades

I think GM might have shown the only real roadmap for saving California.

[tridim]

6. Fiscally mismanaged or raped by Enron

Take your pick.

[Egalitariat]

7. Enron definitely took a bite out of California, but the worst thing that ever happened to CA

was the dot-com boom. They set up so many guaranteed spending programs, which assumed the windfall tax receipts related to the dot com boom would last forever. They became forever addicted to a one-time flow of tax revenue and have never been able to kick the habit.

[cojoel]

10. Proposition 13 started it all

Proposition 13 in the mid-1970s vastly restricted the growth of property tax revenues. In turn, the state began replacing lost revenue to local communities. As time went on this became unaffordable. Prop 13 was sold as a way to prevent ordinary people from losing their homes. That could have been accomplished by leaving the benefits only for primary homes and farms, and not for secondary homes, apartment buildings, and all commercial and corporate-owned property. As it is, it was the greatest transfer of future tax liability from business and wealthy to ordinary people in California's history.

[msongs]

8. far out man. is that you dave? nt

[marmar]

9. San Fransterdam?

I like the sound of that....

:smoke: