Ballot Initiative to Legalize Marijuana in 2010 Filed in California
The second ballot initiative in two weeks, “Activists have 150 days from filing to gather 434,000 signatures to qualify for the statewide ballot in November 2010. ...” The initiative is being spearheaded by medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee, founder of Oaksterdam University. A slight majority of Californians favor legalization in recent polls.
[California Cannabis Initiative]
DEA yanks $1.2 billion in plants from Sierra Nevada [Hula Hoes]
Tis the season for weedin’ and seedin’.
From MSNBC:
Federal and state agents have arrested 83 people accused of growing more than $1.2 billion worth of marijuana in a crackdown … in California’s Sierra Nevada range. ... [the 318,000 plants pulled] account for a small percentage of the pot typically seized in California each year. ... Last year, more than 5.2 million plants were uprooted in all federal and state operations that reported seizures to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
We’re actually ok with the police busting up Meixcan drug gardens in public forests. It’s really bad for the environment.
[MSNBC]
Why is California getting more money to fight the drug war?
Last time I checked we are in the throes of a recession and the State of California is 26 billion dollars in debt. Our schools are ailing, our unemployment rate is over 10 percent, and state money for college students is drying up like the Sahara.
The governor is out talking to politicians and business investors to figure out something, anything that will get us out of this economic mess and yet the Federal government announced today that it will give the State of California 8.7 million dollars in Federal funds to fight the drug cartel. Is it just me or have I been taking crazy pills ?
The Pot Revolution will be Televised [Weed PSA's]
California pro-marijuana lobbyists are bringing the fight to the television by launching this new ad.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced a bill earlier this year to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol, that would provide an estimated $1 billion in taxes for the economically downtrodden state of California. Unfortunately, since Tom is a democrat from San Francisco, hardly anyone has bought into his hippie pothead bullshit.
That would explain why the face of marijuana regulation comes not in the form of Jeff Spiccoli or Cheech & Chong, but rather, a defenseless old white lady. Watch this ad paid for by the Marijuana Policy Project, as retired state employee Nadene Herndon explains how California can stop the bleeding by going puff, puff, tax.
Now, will all the other nonthreatening milquetoast marijuana supporters please stand up?
