Law Enforcement for Legal Weed

[Ganjarden]

A broad campaign to legalize marijuana kicked off today, claiming support from law-enforcement officials, judges, prosecutors, Tea Party activists, and even–this one is hard to believe–students. The "Just Say Now" campaign was launched by the blog FireDogLake.

It is hoping to build support for marijuana legalization on ballots across the country in 2010 and 2012, mobilizing the youth vote on pot and other issues. (Like the presidency?) Marijuana legalization will be on the ballot in at least a half a dozen states, including California, during the next two years.

The group's board of advisers includes Bruce Fein, who was associate deputy attorney general and general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan. He's far from the first conservative to support legalization, which has appealed to the libertarian movement for years. William F. Buckley backed legalizing marijuana.

One hope: Legal pot will bring in tax revenues, which are sorely needed by state and local governments. The medical-marijuana industry in Oakland, California, already is big business.


NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Portfolio.com
Author: Steve Rosenbush
Contact: Portfolio.com
Copyright: 2010 Wall Street Horizon.
Website: Law Enforcement for Legal Weed

* Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article

 

[Magnificient]

I think the only reason marijuana was ever illegal is because it's hard to tax. Give a person a seed and they can bypass taxes. I think the big problem about legalization is that the government can't figure out how to wrap the deal in taxes.