Isn’t California Already on Drugs?

Question by prouddaddy: Isn’t California already on drugs?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_us/us_marijuana_commercial

So the latest news is that potheads want to alliviate California’s budget crisis by smoking pot. Isn’t that how those lawmakers got to that point anyway?

Pothead lawmakers in a spending frenzy?

I can hear them now….”hey dude wanna billion dollars to fix your probs?…whatever dude”

Best answer:

Answer by the real Jared
Look up Mendocino County, California. 1/3 of their entire economy is based on weed sales. No, I’m not exaggerating.

Doesn’t this sort of thing seem like a kind of commodity that would be beneficial to legalize and tax? Just sayin’.

Answer by Phil M
taxing pot would create a giant revenue stream…

That is what they’re referring to. But if you want to keep locking people up for smoking a doobie go for it…it wouldn’t be the first/last time unreasonable laws were continually enforced despite never alleviating the actual problem they were designed to solve.