Virgil-your thoughts on this, please :)

Michele,

Nice photo...

--virgil

Virgil insert sarcastic comments here................................

Seriously,

It makes more sense to decriminalize marijuana completely saving the state what it spends on interdicting it as a dangerous narcotic.

--virgil

Northern California alone could alleviate the budget deficit~ but they would just want to cede from So. Cal.....

"Northern California alone... "

The thing about Marijuana (Hemp, too) is that it is grown everywhere, even in closets.

I bet the stuff would grow better in the central valley - of course, with Northern California Water.

--virgil

Draw the line at Tejon pass, sage.  I want *IN*.

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Spam code PITOT--any pilots out there?

And burn the stalks to generate power.  If we hurry we can make the area south of Bakersfield famous for Panama/Buena Vista Red.

they're doing this in Northern California:

http://www.times-standard.c...

Apparently, indoor grows have been a problem...and they probably will continue to be.

--virgil

Great idea, Talk, if you can't lick'em, join 'em and the problems will simply fade away. How simplistic.

George legalized fraud in housing and market investing. Look at all the problems that solved.

Maybe now you know why I can't use the Californian for a cage liner. The bird throws up when it reads the print.

".. problems will simply fade away.."

Catpaw,

With respect to marijuana, what problems are you talking about?

--virgil

Talk, if you can't lick'em, join 'em and the problems will simply fade away.

The problems *CAUSED BY KEEPING IT ILLEGAL* will fade away.  Not quite so simplistic as you'd like. 

My comment wasn't meant to provoke another pro and con over the joys of being a pot head. We've been through those and I'm right. End of story.

I directed my comment on the capricious attitude of posing the question and lacking qualification: Let's sell dope. What do you think?

Which shows that there is something good I can say about the Californian: It hires the handicapped.

rf, good line about the Panama/BuenaVista Red. Funny!!! So long as it isn't Mexican Drug Cartels doing the growing here. Seems to me that this could help both sides of the border. Not so many heads would get lobbed off in Mexico fighting over who get's the drug trade into the US. 

Spam code; SPEAK  Maybe I ought not!

Among its many benefits cannibis might prevent alzheimer's...

http://researchnews.osu.edu...

But the researchers want to take all the fun out of it...

Sooo, it just causes short memory loss? LOL  Well, except for where the refrigerator is located.

Virgil-I swear the poll question on the home page was specifically  for you...hehe ;)

"...directed my comment on the capricious attitude of posing the question and lacking qualification.."

Catpaw,

Marijuana is legal.... just a reminder. There's nothing capricious about that.

--virgil

  "...and lacking qualification"

Who needs qualifications - it's marijuana not alcohol?

"Let's sell dope. What do you think?"

I don't  think the word dope was used in reference to marijuana before 1938.

What doo yoou think....?

--virgil

Oh wow man......like, I think we should..................................what was the question again? 

Neither was my comment meant to provoke nit-picking over semantics.

"  nit-picking over semantics...."

Marijuana criminalization is not  just about semantics. The stuff was not demonized until the 1930's( 1937 Marijuana Tax Act) .

Before it's hemp and cannabis, now it's Dope.

Also, we're spending a billion dollars (approximate) a year just incarcerating marijuana smokers. That doesn't even include what we are spending watching marijuana smokers before we incarcerate them, or watching them after their release from incarceration.

Not Dope. I call it social welfare. Imagine the money that could be saved if marijuana was decriminalized?

--virgil

Sorry, had to come and check this blog out.  ROFLOL!!!!!!