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Pot Politics: Marijuana to Ease Economic Crisis?

Politics Monday, 16 March 2009 16:40 The next time you see a pickup with bails of Marijuana speed past you on a California highway; it could just be a local with the monthly harvest on the way to the market. This isn't far if state assemblyman Tom Ammiano has his way. The legalization he introduced last month would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale, yielding billions of dollars in revenue for the cash-stripped state.

With the economic recession crunching into state treasuries, could cannabis rescue the state of California? Pot after all is California's richest cash crop, yielding more than $14 billion annually in sales. Read more...