Message to Obama: Keep Marriage. Give Us Marriajuana!

Bilerico  Aug 23 09

The New York Times describes the battle between the growers of marijuana in the mountains of California and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. In eighteen raids, the officers have netted 225,000 plants but have made zero arrests. Recently, illustrating the bicoastal profitability of this illegal enterprise, police in New England arrested a dozen people who they claim are responsible for sixty billion dollars of marijuana trade.

Aside from the obvious absurdity of continuing this ridiculously futile prohibition against pot, I had a brilliant idea while imagining a time when growing marijuana will be legal and regulated and taxed. Full story...

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