Savior of the American Economy: Weed
This is the best stimulus plan yet! Legalize weed in California.
First off - the tax revenue alone from weed sales could help tremendously with our bankrupt state. Second, California already grows almost a billion dollars worth of weed each year in Humbolt County - legalizing would obviously increase that and put a lot of farmers to work. In addition to being the capital of high tech and hollywood movies, weed could replace the defense industry as a major state employer. In addition, it would cripple the revenues to drug gangs in Mexico.
Hey, if times are as desperate as everyone is saying, this is a very valid idea worth considering. I mean, who are we kidding, weed is basically defacto legal right now.
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I proposed the same as part of my own stimulus plan, which I described to Robyn last week!
Another component of my plan was legalizing gay marriage, which would provide an influx of jobs for many caterers and florists!
I'm being serious about the weed thing. Regarding gay marriage, it wouldn't add much economically. But because of Sean Penn and the writer of Milk mentioned it in their acceptance speeches, I now believe we have a moral obligation to allow gays to marry.
Why do you think I'm not serious?
I agree that legalizing gay marriage could also help, anyone who's ever gotten married especially in LA can tell you weddings are a a billion dollar industry.
But I think weed is the real way to go, plus if more people start getting high no one will really care about the economic crisis, not to mention the impact it will have on the snack food industry.
what percentage of the population is gay? 2-3%? so factor in gays like to party and i guess in the best case we could expect a 4% bump in wedding expenditures. i don't see that as significant...although maybe we'd see a temporary big bump because of all the weddings that were held off for legal purposes.
and yes, legal weed would have a reverberative effect on snack food, eye drop, and the stop motion animation industries...
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