Come into the bud light
This particular graphic has been floating around for a few days now — I caught it at Van der Leun’s — and it deserves some comment.
The tax numbers look impressive, but it’s only because they have lots of digits. California could certainly use $105 million right about now — even after taking some hard steps to bring the budget into balance, the Pyrite State is facing declining revenues — but it’s a drop in the bucket at best.
And I question the map of “Density of Habitual Marijuana Users”: the stoners I’ve known, regardless of location, have been pretty uniformly dense.
McGehee »
15 November 2009 · 5:14 pm
Danged bleeding-heart judges!
McGehee »
15 November 2009 · 5:16 pm
…and how seriously are we to take a graphic made by someone who can’t spell “possession” despite probably having been charged with it at least twice (in the past minute)?
Jeffro »
15 November 2009 · 5:54 pm
Don’t bogart that tax money.
fillyjonk »
15 November 2009 · 7:49 pm
I would note that Hawaii is not shown on that map. And I was told by a fellow student in a workshop trip I took there that supposedly Hawaii produces some of the “best” stuff. And he seemed to me like he would know…
localmalcontent »
15 November 2009 · 9:16 pm
Dang- Florida is ahead of Texas in every poll I see. (ahem)
Still, I’d support legalization of weed, merely to empty the jails and prisons, releiving the taxpayer of that costly burden.
I am very skeptical of these numbers presented here, of revenue~
Donna B. »
16 November 2009 · 1:17 am
I’m skeptical of the tax revenue figures, but I’m also skeptical of whether imprisoning even half the numbers of those illustrated can be a societal good.
Jack Daniels is legal, but Mary Jane isn’t. I can’t see a logical difference between the two. People will self-medicate with whatever they can obtain… whether it’s legal or not.
Lisa Paul »
16 November 2009 · 3:38 am
Who knew we Californians had so much in common with Texans?
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16 November 2009 · 7:02 pm
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