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I’m trying to wrap my head around this concept. For those people living in california, you know that every time you look around, there seems a new tax, a rise in food prices, or gas prices, or a loss of jobs. And now there is a San Francisco representative, Tom Ammiano, who wants to tax marijuana .
Ok, first thing is that while californians have passed Prop 215 that allows for the growing and use of marijuana for medical purposes. Yet marijuana dispensaries are being raided on a weekly basis. And it is still against Federal Law. Second, and how I understand it, the state would put a $50.00 fee on an ounce of marijuana. L. M. F. A. O. !!! Why would I pay $150.00 for an ounce of marijuana when I can still go to the “neighborhood dealer” and get the same or BETTER marijuana for $50.00 less???? Why would a drug dealer pay $5,000.00 for a “franchise fee” and another $2,500.00, on a yearly basis mind you, when they don’t have to? How many legitimate business owners waited until they started making “real money” before they got all of the licenses, permits, and “legalese” worked out??? Many people want to keep the government out of their business. Why would I let them into something like this????
Lastly, and this is what really pisses me off the most. The citizens of this state voted against Same Sex Marriage. A decision that cost this state potentially $684 million dollars. The Williams Institute at U.C.L.A. predicted gay men and lesbians would spend alot of money on wedding cakes, photographers, tuxedos, hotel rooms, and related wedding trappings. So here we have an untapped market that has a “trickle down” effect and was voted away. Here is a market that would pull people from not only other states, BUT OTHER COUNTRIES as well, to add money to our state coffers. But noooooo! We would rather have the governor raise sales and income taxes, and have cuts to many social service programs.
Either way, the state of california loses. Because instead of people coming here to get married, they are going to Massachuttes, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Oh, and instead of californians staying here and getting married, we are “heading east.” Kinda puts a new spin on the “east coast, west coast” debate doesn’t it! To smoke or get married. What a dilema!
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When I heard that Charles Barkley was arrested for a DUI, I shook my head in amazement that someone with so much to lose would put it at risk. Then when I heard his excuse of wanting to get Oral Sex, I figured anyone that stupid needed to lose things. How dumb can you be? As I said in an earlier post when it happened, that in time this would pass and all would be forgiven. But that was before T-Mobil dropped him so fast that Seismologists reported a earth tremor when Charles fell. So I figured that’s what happens when you fall off the pedestal. What I didn’t figure was that the color of your skin might have something to do with it also!
Olympian Michael Phelps won 8 Gold medals at the 2008 Olympics and has done a Victory Lap around the world ever since. He has gotten awards, prime seats at sporting events, and rubbed shoulders with the “beautiful people.” Yet this past week, a picture of him smoking Marijuana out of a bong has surfaced. He has admitted that the picture is indeed real. So his sponsors should be running for the hills right now right? No, that’s not the case. Thus far his sponsors are “standing by him.” HUH??? Isn’t possession of Marijuana and drug paraphenalia a CRIME? Hasn’t he admitted that he did it? Or does he have the Marijuana Card which allows him to smoke? This isn’t his first issue with the law. In 2004, he was arrested for Drunk Driving. But because he was just Mike Phelps and not Michael Phelps, it was a blip on the “celebrity screw up” map.
So what is the difference? Why was one guy dropped like an expired EBT Card, and the other embraced like nothing happened? Is it because one guy was arrested and the other wasn’t? You be the judge. Either way …. IT MUST BE NICE!!!!!!!!!!
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