I came across this article this morning and of course the title caught my attention. When I started reading I had no idea I was about to experience the absolute best argument ever made for the legalization of marijuana that I have ever seen.
It’s a straight forward no bullshit assessment of our current economic condition and a viable solution to California’s budget crisis. The time is now to embrace the decriminalization of marijuana and move past the “War on Drugs”. Have we not had enough war in this lifetime? Smoke a fricking joint and relax for the sake of our economy 
Smoke This Recession / It’s simple: First we tax the booze. Then we legalize the pot. Done.
Really now, could there be a better time to decriminalize/fully legalize pot? Or, more fully, to decriminalize pot, and then spread respectable pot shops and vending machines and dispensaries far and wide, instill quality control and decent oversight and then tax the living hell out of the glorious, stress-reducing goodness, as we stop wasting billions fighting its grand ubiquity and instead sink into profitable pools of warm, hazy progress? Don’t you already know the answer?Did you know that Alfie loves you?
