Time Mag: Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy?

Might generate tax dollars but will also generate more social woes and the expense to pay for those social services provided by the State. Calif already pays out the nose for social services. It's a bullshit scam. Welfare is a lifestyle around these parts. We have third generation people tapping the system . . . living in the same house with Mom - Dad - Grandma and Grandpa - all on the dole, sitting on their ass growing pot. We really need more people on the road with phuqued up brain cells. Can't hardly find anybody willing to work and earn a living the old fashioned way around these parts. So many people have the Medical Pot 215 card, it's out of control. Half the doctors in the area will write the permit without hesitation. They advertise their practice in the newspaper as being 215 card providers. You have a headache? Poor soul, this 215 card should help what ails you . . . . I've been in "Humboldt" County for thirty-five years. It's a liberal county with a liberal District Attorney. The hills are riddled with Mexican thugs and other local deadbeats who live in in plywood shacks in the hills tending to their plot like sharecroppers in the old days. It's out of control. Legalizing it won't help. I'm already taking a 10% pay cut to pay for the deadbeats who suck the welfare system dry. Making it legal will only make more deadbeats for the working people to pay for. I've had a young couple live right next door for a couple years. Both had 215 cards. Neither had a job. Spent their days tending to the garden like master gardeners. Two toddlers running around helping in the garden with plants 10 feet tall . . . with mom and day puffing away enjoying the good life. It's Bullshit! Ya got me all fired up now. Angry