California should pay its people in pot
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 7:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
Topics: California, Huffington Post, Sacramento(Huffington Post) California’s state finances have gone to pot, and that’s what it should use to pay its employees.
Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on, but most Californians know that’s true only if they are used to roll joints.
The state’s key available assets are in its farms and fields….and in its prisons and legal system.
Medical marijuana is legal in California. Estimates put last year’s traffic in prescription-approved pot at around a billion dollars. If the state were properly organized to tax that and non-medical marijuana — whose dollar volume is many times greater — it might actually have enough money to pay its employees.
