A way out for California?
Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Commentary, Economy, Nathaniel Bacon
California’s state finances have gone to pot, and that’s what it should use to pay its employees.
Right now the state is issuing IOU’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they are written on, but most Californians know that’s true only if they are used to roll joints. The state’s key available assets are in its farms and fields . . . and its prisons and legal system.
Medical marijuana is legal in California. Estimates put last years traffic in prescription-approved pot at around a billion dollars. If the state were properly organized to tax that and non-medical marijuana — whose dollar volume is many times greater — it might actually have enough money to pay its employees.
By legalizing marijuana, California could immediately free tens of thousands of prisoners at a savings of ten of millions of dollars. Those quick savings could be a down payment on the salaries of its employees (and cover the unemployment benefits that will be due prison builders and guards who will be laid off).
But they, in turn, could go to work GROWING marijuana. With its huge agricultural resources, California could immediately become the world hub of the legal marijuana trade. (Mendocino and other counties are already vying for this title).
It could also pay its employees if not in dollars, then in pot. Here’s how: ZZZZZZZ>>>
We are seeing the failure of prohibition-style social legislation.
Little by little the US is breaking up.
One size no longer fits all.
Marijuana must have some medical healing powers or must be able to replace something the Jews are making a fortune off of. There is some reason marijuana is illegal and it has something to do with the Jews wallet, not the fact that you can get a buzzz from smoking it.
No one goes into a rage after smoking marijuana. Alcohol is well know to cause people to behave in a hostile manner. No one should drive under the influence of marijuana just as no one should drive under the influence of alcohol.
In our land of the free, there are more people in prison per capita for some offense than any other country in the world!
Free? Think about how free we are.
We no longer have the freedom to hire who we want to work for us. Quotas are set and must be met.
Free?? If we use our freedom of speech to point out the obvious, we are fired for being racist.
More people in prison in America per capita than any other country in the world!!! In the Land of the Free.
The Jews are good at indoctrinating Americans into believing they are “FREE”. In reality we are slaves to Israel.
Once more, the Goethe quote:
“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
The Emerald Triangle, lol. Gotta love the North State.
The real issue here is States rights vs Federal law. The tenth amendment is whats important here.