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How many more times?

I've taken to searching cannabis stories lately and I'm struck by the amount of pot that is busted in any given week. Just in today's reports, almost a ton was seized twice in Tuscon, in two different locations. A business owner was busted for 100 pounds in Mississippi and Miami Dophins running back Ricky Williams was accused of consuming it. Then there are the US grow-ops like this little outdoor plot in Georgia and this pretty big one in North Carolina.

You know what? These small time busts that go unreported even in the activist newsletters, happen every week, especially in an election year and they don't amount to spit in a rainstorm. Our government spends billions of our tax dollars on these interdictions and they're lucky to be getting 15-20% of the cannabis that reaches the market.

Who do you think is buying the other 80% that gets through? Chances are someone you know and like smokes cannabis at least occassionally. Think about what 11 million dollars would have done for the local economy of Fayetteville, North Carolina. And that's just one bust and one field.

What makes more sense? Paying out millions to rip up plants and house the non-violent consumers that currently fill the US gulag or to be collecting taxes on regulated business transactions of an ecologically beneficial agricultural product that would not require government subsidies to be profitable?