First, A anti-marijuana public service announcement.


(That had to hurt)

California State Legislator: Pot Can Fix the Budget Mess

Tom Ammiano wants to effectively legalize-- and tax -- California's trade in cannabis.

AB 390 "would remove all penalties in California law on cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, or use of marijuana, natural THC, or paraphernalia for persons over the age of 21," Ammiano's press secretary Quintin Mecke told the San Francisco Weekly.

Ammiano, a rookie state legislator and former San Francisco supervisor, may have a unique opportunity to win support for the bill in the wake of the state's budget debacle.

"California has the opportunity to be the first state in the nation to enact a smart, responsible public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana," he said.

Mecke suggested taxes on the trade could amount to $1 billion according to advocates.

And I'd bet that's a conservative estimate. read the rest MSNBC

It would be easy to crack a few tokes jokes about this but honestly many cops support legalization and they do need revenue in California in fact they are jonesing for it. The tax he proposes isn't that high.

Listen to a podcast with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Spokesman Tony Ryan.