Let's Get High. You and Me.

 Prop 19: Legalize Marijuana.  

As Prop 19 suggests in their agenda, taxing marijuana would ideally generate (with The State's tax collector, Board of Equalization estimating) around $1.4 billion in annual revenue that might aid in supporting public works, healthcare, jobs, etc. This sounds kickass as well as their proposition to siphon power from leading Drug Cartels and to redirect our Police Force towards more ''harmful'' crimes.

I think this would be helpful to save/earn revenue, as actually imprisoning a marijuana offender wastes our taxpaying dollars. (61,000 Californians were arrested for marijuana possession in 2008 according to the FBI, with your average arrest costing about $6,000 in taxpayer's hard earned cash. What a waste of money!)

It is also interesting to see that major advocates of this prop include a San Jose Police Chief, An OC Superior Court Judge, and A Deputy Chief of the LAPD, a Narcotic Detective from the LAPD, and a U.S Surgeon General (At the top of the medical field). (All retired, but rest aside, you'd think they'd know wtf is going on in terms of allocating their efforts).

"SO LET'S LEGALIZE IT ALREADY THEN!"

First off, I laugh at you kiddies who think this means everyone will be able to smoke it off wherever/whenever they want.

Prop 19 clearly states: "only adults 21 and over can possess up to one ounce of marijuana, to be consumed at home or licensed establishments"

So if you're getting high with your homeboy behind school, you're still breaking the law.

What bothers me about legalization is the amount of regulation and enforcement that it would call for immediately after being instated. I would hopefully assume jobs in CA would still require the employee to be "drug free." Just imagine yourself in need of surgery--a life or death situation. Would you feel comfortable with a Surgeon who has just smoked a bowl within the last 24 hours? The last week? The last month? And don't get me started on Air Traffic Control! Either way, there is still risk involved as far as being able to function correctly and do your job accordingly. Accidents statistically would inevitably occur (though in the long run, it might prove negligible).

Some might say that "weed is needed for those in pain." Sure, weed alleviates pain--so does Vicodin and Morphine. This excuse is a cheap way to justify the use of medical Marijuana--when you look at the fact that 90% of those who use it DON'T "NEED" IT, and even more so, the majority has no point to make for their "medical need for marijuana."

Personally, I believe that the revenue we could use from taxing this mind-draining plant would indeed be useful (though like the rest of our revenue, it would probably be wasted on bull%(@! welfare programs and other needless socialistic establishments that are pushed by the democratic agenda; For that matter, the fact that our school budgets were cut doesn't necessarily indicate that our economy is going to shit per se, but that California needs to get it's stuff together and not waste our valuable tax payer's cash.)

I feel rather disappointed with this popular condonation for a cheap euphoric pleasure that in my humble opinion, is such a frikkin waste of time and life.

Fuck Weed.  

I'll don't need a plant to help create a better reality for myself.