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Originally Posted by cherrylula
Sure, but my sister just got pulled over in LA with an ounce of weed, a pipe, and her card and didn't even get a ticket. The cop didn't tell her anything. Sure clubs get raided, and alcohol bars get in trouble for serving minors, liquor stores get in trouble for selling kids cigarettes. All these places have to be monitored, just the way it is. They need to update the cannabis laws in this country, and they most likely will at some point. But it has been decriminalized since the seventies already in CA.
Who cares what LA wants? LA is a pretty influential city in California, and the state needs them too and their money. Hollywood owns California.
and you know this how...? Sure people are breaking rules, no doubt. But Rite Aid sure isn't a non profit business, why should a marijuana pharmacy be non profit?
yeah, Oakland voted on a tax, good for them.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...ornia.pot.tax/
Let me add, I am not against paying taxes on it and it being a legal business. I know its pretty wild what is going on in LA right now, but they will tame it and tax it, etc.
Seriously, as someone who has been a part of the cannabis culture of Los Angeles pretty much my entire life because I was born to two pot heads in the seventies, I think it is awesome the city is doing this because millions of money is/was made by flakey pot dealers and I personally became tired of dealing with them just to get a little weed. I've known too many shady dealers and it is about time they go forward with more legalization.
I am all for it being regulated just like alcohol and pills. |
they should be a non profit or not for profit because thats what the law says. You do not see rite aid in CA selling alcohol after 2am (could be earlier in stores) either now do you, why? because that is what CA law says.
You may want to think LA has all of this power. The state is not stupid. LA just happens to be the extra expensive red headed slave. If it came to vote every other county would gladly kick LA out of the state no questions asked. I do also call it a slave as it is beholden to the rest of the state. It has lost almost all of its production power, the only thing it has left really is entertainment. They no longer produce any agriculture of any significance, they fuck with the rest of the states insurance premiums (all of them), they have to depend on water contracts - many of which are coming up for renewal and unlike in the early 1900's the city has let its power slip. Then on top of that it is a money pit for the state. So to make it simple water owns California. In case you have not noticed even Hollywood lost its grip on production.
As for Oakland it is much more than they voted on a tax (remember your original argument was about LA making money), the clubs pushed for the tax to be placed on them. They have also layed the foundations of how the clubs were intended to be ran. None of their neighbors have issue with the clubs either and they really do not get raided. They offer schools on running clubs, growing your own, and all of the other tidbits of the law.
Good for you and your youth. I too grew up around it, just most of what I grew up around was occasionally delivered to you all down there, typically it was kept local or sent to NY. Most of these people latter moved onto coke and the few remaining pot farmers set up shop a little west of where I am today. I still remember spending a birthday with my dad while he had to do a job with his grader, we spent most of the day leveling a half mile of dirt in the forest so a plane could land.
No need to go tit for tat. We have different views and I will leave it at that. I will stay on the legal side. I already been down the other road and barely made it out.