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California Marijuana Tax Binge Must Go to Pot

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We’ve been hearing more and more in the news about California and its governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to pass legislation to legalize medical marijuana where it would (and already is) be available to even more people who don’t have a medical condition.

The news media are playing a role in providing a platform for it, but don’t seem to take a stand on it.  Why?  They do on just about everything else.  However, it’s not the news media that the focus.  We’re after the truth and the truth is taxing marijuana is the wrong thing to do.  Putting a monetary number in front of it to entice voters and citizens to go along with it and next to the fact that the State is bankrupt already is a rouse.

Politicians in favor of it have the wrong information and are using their power to cover-up their greed from the past by making up statistics that don’t reflect the values of the people of California who are in the majority in favor of keeping it an illegal substance and only for medical purposes which was the deal that was brokered concerning Prop 15 which made it legal.  There were fears that this first step would be the precursor for making it legal and taxing it later on, but politicians and advocates promised this was not the case, it was purely for medical reasons and those in pain and in need of the substance.

Now we have a different tune that is playing and what these legislators are basically saying is exactly what a drug dealer would say, ’supply and demand’.  There is plenty of supply and we know where that comes from.  Let us also point out something.  Many police officers both in California and our nation and including Mexico have died because of marijuana.  Murdered to be exact and also in the line of duty.  The facts are being twisted on us again because of greed.  The bad guys and syndicates are profit driven and so now the politicians want to do the same thing as the growers and distributors of marijuana and the cover-up is calling it by another name, ‘tax’ and ‘for the people’.

It’s greed any way you look at it and just because California has a budget problem does not give it an excuse to endanger more police officers and agents who have risked their very lives and those who have already sacrificed for the sake of their mistakes in spending too much and they continue to do so and will not listen to the people who have strongly sent a message of NO NEW TAXES.  Yet California legislators continue to tax and spend out of control.

Until the legislator shows some common sense by cutting their pork and spending within their means, they can not be trusted.  How can we trust someone when they continue to be deviant and figure out ways around what the population has spoken and voted regarding no new taxes?  It is only the beginning of the State setting aside special land and agriculture to start growing their own marijuana and even offering grants and subsidies to farmers alike to grow it.  It will even begin an underground market separate from traditional drug dealing.  It will even open the door to more and more political favors and back-door deals and political extortion and corruption and cash payouts.

Who wouldn’t want to be in charge of that committee?  Who wouldn’t want to be the real CA Drug Czar, a whole new role in drug dealing?  The one who signs the contracts with marijuana vendors.  It’s a whole new underworld that is legal and free from prosecution.  We call that ‘Above the law’.  The abuse of power and position will start to be shown and then covered-up.  CA will have its own ‘Family’.  A political one that will have funds to support the dominate party in control.  Let’s take it to a new level of unionizing it. 

Let us point out that the current DOJ AG has stated he would not enforce federal laws on California unless both agencies are in one accord in enforcing.  What does this mean?  It means California will have a ‘pass’ and uninterrupted access to deal drugs and make money, not just for the States coffers, but it will eventually get into the hands of one political party.  And we mean ONE.  There will be no room for others, it will be used to dominate and probably only pay off the other side to keep their silence and ignorance in tact.

What does this mean to the cartels that will start to see a decline in their crops and tons of marijuana already traveling across our borders on a daily basis?  Do you think they will take revenge on those who grow it?  We think the possibilities are endless and they might even get the Mexican government to get involved in legally bringing into this country a new brand that will appear stamped, “Made in Mexico”.  By whom?  We don’t know, but as long as the government of Mexico says it’s OK, its fine. 

How many law enforcement across this country will say that the Mexican government does not have corrupt politicians involved in the drug trade?  Or, who get paid from it in one form or another?

The NRLEA vigorously is against this tax scheme because it ruins lives and it also will kill more police officers and agents.  Too many promises have been broken and we won’t show a blind eye to this.  Tell the Governor of California that this is a bad deal for everyone and the children and families in California as it sends a bad message to all of America.

Can you imagine a badge and ID card that says, “California Bureau of Marijuana”?  Pot Cop!  It’s time this taxation of marijuana goes to pot and burn out.  Nancy Reagan said it best, ‘Say ‘NO’ to drugs’.