Il est temps pour mon annuaire rant sur la stupidité de l'extirpation de marijuana et bien qu'il continue nationalement, dans aucun endroit est lui mieux a illustré que la Californie où ils ont juste accompli leur attaque annuelle sur les usines inoffensives.

[T] il campagne annuelle contre la plantation de marijuana avait déraciné environ 3 millions d'usines, éliminant des $11.6 milliards environ de valeur d'herbe. C'est plus de deux fois la valeur du plus grand produit agricole légal, du lait et de la crème de l'état, qui a valu la peine $5.2 milliards de 2005, selon le département d'état de la nourriture et de l'agriculture. Il est presque quatre temps la valeur de la plus grande récolte légale de l'argent comptant de l'état, raisins, qui a valu la peine $3.2 milliards.

C'est seulement une fraction de la récolte extérieure de l'état. Using past state and federal government figures, they failed to eradicate some 14 million plants. And that’s just the outdoor crop. It doesn’t include a prodigious indoor cultivation industry which is increasing as outdoor growers are moving into suburban homes to avoid detection.

Marijuana Policy Project sums up the futility of it all.

“The Department of Justice has confirmed everything we’ve been saying about CAMP all year,” said Bruce Mirken, San Francisco-based director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project. “If you want criminal gangs moving in next door to grow marijuana, if you want to make those criminals unbelievably rich, and if you want to guarantee that marijuana becomes more potent, current policies are working perfectly. If you think that’s crazy, then it’s time for California to regulate marijuana production just like we regulate wine.”

In 5,000 years no one has died as a direct result of ingesting cannabis. In contrast, 7,600 people died in a single year from aspirin overdose and hundreds of thousands have died of alcohol abuse and tobacco use. Yet we spend tens of billions of tax dollars every year making war on a harmless weed when we could be reaping possibly hundreds of billions in tax revenues from a regulated legal industry. How dumb is that?

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