Thursday, March 25, 2010

Marijuana Going Legal In California



California residents will be voting this year to decide whether marijuana should be legal and used to raise nearly $1.4 billion in state revenue. I'm not sure how many people know this or not but research shows that California is 24.3 billion dollars in debt. With weed being legal it would provide more jobs and more taxes would then be collected. If approved it will allow an individual to possess no more than one ounce, as long as they were over the age of 21. It would also allow an individual to operate a grow room for personal consumption, but the room can be no bigger than five foot by five foot. Yet, despite the harms of marijuana, politicians persist in imposing and upholding marijuana prohibition, because these politicians are not working for the people, they are working for the corporate executives who financed their campaigns. In other words they don't care if it is hurting someone as long as they are getting paid for it.

Top three reported uses of medicinal marijuana:

40% Chronic Pain
22% AIDS-Related
15% Mood Disorders
(23% All other categories)

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