• 08 Jul 2009 at 4:50 PM

Group Wants California To Smoke Its Way Back To Financial Health

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As California’s desperation to close its $26 billion deficit grows by the day, a group known as the Marijuana Policy Project has offered up a way for the state to shave a billion off their tab- legalize and tax pot. The group launched a TV ad campaign last night in support of all those Californians armed with their three-footers just aching to help the state out by paying taxes on their Maui wowie.

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    Comments (21)

    1. 1
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM

      too bong didn’t read

    2. 2
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM

      toke not smoke

    3. 3
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:02 PM

      Big Sur Holy Weed not Maui Wowie

    4. 4
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM

      TAX THE POT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE (to be said all Ahnoldy)

    5. 5
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM

      i’m sure there won’t only be revenue from taxing marijuana. occupancy tax revenue, taxes on airfare, etc. will increase due to the sudden influx of visitors to california. it will be the “green” rush of 2010!

    6. 6
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:19 PM

      sounds like a win win for california and pot smokers.

    7. 7
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:25 PM

      the state should start paying its bills with kind rather than IOUs

    8. 8
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM

      Free The Weed.

    9. 9
      Posted by trojan | July 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM

      littering and… littering and… smoking the reefer!

    10. 10
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM

      Sometimes I smoke to ease the pain after reading one of Greg’s posts.
      Greg’s Mom

    11. 11
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 7:36 PM

      Does weed cause pears?

    12. 12
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM

      No way the cartels let this go down

    13. 13
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 9:20 PM

      i’ve got two tickets to paradise…..

    14. 14
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 9:27 PM

      12- cartels? You are aware the 99% of the bud inthe country is grown in this country, right?
      I think a bunch of mendo burners would be more than happy to split the pie if it meant not having to booby trap the back 40 and kill innocent trail runners/mountain bikers (customers) and kill their (actually justified) paranoia.
      Just saying. Oh, and stick to the indica if the sativa gives you panic attacks. but you’ll want to ski/ride onthe sativa once you calm down. Or so I’m told.

    15. 15
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM

      @14 You don’t have a fucking clue about growers on public lands. You know what’s easier than smuggling a ton of weed across the Mexican border? Smuggling a few cartel members and a bunch of illegals to tend the farms. You think they just want to pay some taxes? Bullshit.
      They’re farming free on government owned land that’s meant to be used by the public. Unfortunately in many areas, the public is too fucking scared to use public access land. If you approach a field on a public road, you’re harrassed and intimidated to the point that you just leave happy to still be alive. Private land owners have stumbled onto grow areas on their own land and can’t do shit about it. Hunters have been waived off by gun toting illegals when they unknowingly came too close to the fields without seeing anything.
      Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail are stupid if they don’t carry guns, it’s that bad.
      You think these dudes just want to buy a farm somewhere so they can peacefully grow weed and pay property taxes, water fees, and open their books to the IRS and FTB?
      Mendocino is bad enough, start moving up the coast though, the closer you get to Oregon, the worse the situation gets.
      I’m not a weed fan, but I am all for California legalizing the shit. Get rid of the gangs(at least partially), the MM(ditto), and get some revenue out of California’s number one cash crop.

    16. 16
      Posted by guest | July 8, 2009 at 11:30 PM

      Why would you hire a woman who, quite possibly, is the ugliest effing person in North America to film the commercial?

    17. 17
      Posted by guest | July 9, 2009 at 2:19 AM

      @16
      They were all stoned and remembered that she was hot 30 years ago before she embarked on a thirty year tour of the munchies?
      Boys, let this serve as a public service announcement. Do not marry a hot chick who likes to smoke weed.
      End PSA.

    18. 18
      Posted by NAS Keflavik boi | July 9, 2009 at 9:01 AM

      @ 17 – dude lighten up she’s like 60 — wayyy past the soup chicken stage even…
      http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soup+chicken
      besides – drunk old broads look even worse than the giggleweed aficionados

    19. 19
      Posted by guest | July 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM

      If it’s legalized, ConAgra and ADM would put so much downward pressure on prices that the cartels would have to take up poppy farming to stay profitable.

    20. 20
      Posted by guest | July 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM

      @19
      There are millions of loracets/vicodin/hydrocodone addicts that would LOVE for that to occur.
      -TGFHouston
      LEGALIZE/DECRIMINALIZE IT.

    21. 21
      Posted by KevinB | July 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM

      Hey – legalizing booze helped us get out of the Great Depression. Legalizing pot may do the same for us this time. Just put enough downward pressure on prices at the beginning to run all the cartels out of business (who would pay $100/oz if you can get it at the government store for $25?), and then slowly hike the taxes up. Just like boiling frogs.

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