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[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 4, 2009: If Obama puts out a stimulus package which invests in a little R&D to develop these magical New Technologies (they don’t pop up overnight you know), then the Republicans complain that “it was supposed to be a stimulus package; we need stuff that stimulates NOW (like cutting our taxes hint hint).”

[BMI Headlines] Media Talk Up Pot Legalization as Possible Answer to Bad Economy: Criticism of current marijuana policy typically starts by limiting the calculation of marijuana’s societal costs to the costs of arresting and imprisoning marijuana users. This way of calculating the costs minimizes those produced by use of the drug itself (i.e., the costs of treatment, drugged driving crashes, and lost productivity).

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Media Talk Up Pot Legalization as Possible Answer to Bad Economy: Cigs and booze are socially okay in America, provided you follow the age restrictions of course.  (I remember my dad sending me to the corner store to buy his smokes in the 70's.  Nowadays you must be 18 to purchase, right?)  Yet marijuana is illegal to own, and its indulgence is frowned upon by the norm of society.  (Not without merit, though.  Weed has tons more tar than tobacco, and it kills healthy sperm cells in men!  Yeesh!  What rational guy would want that?  And then there is the stereotype for weed indulgers.  Cheech and Chong, anyone?  Or is that reference too old?)

[The Opinionator] Drill, Baby, Drill. And Legalize, Baby, Legalize. - The ...: The potential legalization of marijuana in California should be embraced, if only as a sign of a cultural shift from an era of fantasy-based debt creation to a reality-based era of resource maximization. In order to more firmly reinforce such a paradigm shift in the minds of the electorate, Sacramento would be well advised in addition to track on open websites the transparent utilization of marijuana taxation-say, to fund state health programs.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and ...:     Conrad, who believes in American ingenuity to find creative solutions using hemp, says, "Only the scourge of prohibitionism can see to it that our economy and environment rot into sewage. It is up to the good, hard-working and honest people to end cannabis prohibition and start the process of rebuilding the planet and our global and regional economies."

[Latest Questions at Experience Project] Do You Think Legalizing MARIJUANA Can Help Boost Our American ...: all too true here in northern cali.where pot is our biggest cash crop-yes,trumping Napa Valley Vinyards-drug cartels are running rampant and poisoning and killing what used to be a mom n'pop back to the land thing,the potential profits were just too lucrative not to have greedsters mess it up for everyone.ok,my rant over.I love marijuana,but very glad I've chosen not to use any for two years.I needed to grow up a bit,that wasn't happening clutching a bong.maybe someday,who knows?

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For August 18, 2009: The San Diego County medical examiner’s office report released Tuesday says 30-year-old Robert Rosas was hit four times in the head ”” three times on the left side of his face and once in the back of the head. He was also shot once in the neck and three times in the torso.

[The Stump] Letters: California disease, marijuana seizure, USPS a model for ...: While not depriving a single Oregonian or Washingtonian of a job, we are pouring about $6000 per month into the local economy. We do this in local eateries, grocery stores, retail stores and farmers markets.

[NORML Blog] Colorado Juror: Medical Marijuana Case A Waste Of Resources ...: Pharmaceutical companies have been going bananas for the last 20 years trying to make a drug that can replace cannabis, at the same time they claiming that marijuana has no medical use in it’s natural form. It doesnt make sense untill you realize that they cant make money off of the marijuana but they can sell us some pills that contain man-made THC and that would be fine because it’s no longer marijuana.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Wow: Kennedy didn't dabble in petty ...: Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him!

[The Yankee Sailor] The Flies In The Drug Legalization Ointment ”º The Yankee Sailor ...: Also from an economic standpoint is the massive amounts of money spent to pay for the drug prohibition. Ask yourself why is it that the government is willing to spend almost $100 billion on domestic operations alone on prohibition, not counting all of the aid that is sent to Mexico to ensure that the Mexican government tows the American government’s line?

[NORML Blog] FOJ 2009: White House Smoke-In To End Marijuana Prohibition ...: If I had seen any serious rallying going on by NORML or MPP I would probably have made plans to head down, but in my situation, I’m over 50 and don’t know anyone personally who smokes pot or is even in favor of it, so for me to go down there by myself and deal with huge crowds in an unfamiliar place, well, there was so little publicity on this that I wasn’t even sure it was going on.

[AlterNet.org] The Financial Crisis Just Might Lead to Legal Pot | DrugReporter ...: Also, If pot is legalized it will bring in tremendous revenues, be a regulated industry and get rid of drug dealers. Putting poeple in jail for pot while tabacco kills 400 million people around the world is insanity and of course since prisons are now a growth industry, that we pay for, making pot illegal makes these private corporations rich at our expense while destroying lives.

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