Legalizing Recreational Pot in California
As of yesterday, a proposition has qualified to appear on the November ballot in California that would legalize the recreational use and growing of marijuana. It has a snowball's chance in Hades of passing, but it will be guaranteed to result in a big boost to the economy anyway, in the form of millions and millions of dollars spent on campaign advertising and paraphernalia. The proposed law would, as I understand it, make it legal to possess up to an ounce of pot and to grow it on your property in a plot measuring less than 25 square feet in area. I'm sure the sale and distribution would be taxed, probably just as medicinal marijuana is now in our fair state, which legalized pot for health reasons some time ago. I've long been a proponent of decriminalizing marijuana across the board and putting a nice, heavy tax levy on it. I mean, why should the druglords have a corner on that huge pot of pot money? Needless to say, I'll be a big backer of this proposition and will be writing from time to time about why I think it is such a great idea. Now if we can get the curse taken off hemp....
