So I'm listening to the 11 o'clock news and they're telling me how the State of California is having a HUUGE Garage Sale this week, including 15 cars to be sold on ebay signed personally by Gov. Schwarzenegger, and they think the garage sale may raise a whole 1.5 million dollars for the revenue-strapped state, and then the news segues into Schwarzenegger has also set up a "feedback from citizens" site to collect suggestions from citizens about ways to improve the State, get better government, set priorities, etc. Then comes the kicker from Mr. Anchorman: the most popular suggestions on the site were (1) legalize and tax marijuana, and (2) decriminalize possession of all drugs, as was done this week in Mexico.
So I decided to give Schwarzenegger my own citizen suggestion: Yes, legalize and tax pot, like Oakland has already done. Wow! You can "vote" too. Go to:
http://www.myidea4ca.com/
Kossacks, now you too can go online and tell the Governator that it's time to legalize marijuana. Make the 11 o'clock news!
Currently, the three most popular "improve government" suggestions on the site, by way far, are:
- legalize and tax marijuana, end the war on drugs (299 net thumbs up - any thumbs down lowers the total)
- Get marijuana offenders out of our prisons, and give incentives for hemp based agriculture, processing and manufacturing. (226 net thumbs up)
- Budget solutions: legalize/tax marijuana, decrim. small possess. of coke, etc., like Mexico did Fri. (123 net thumbs up).
Sometimes the leaders get a surprise if they ask citizens what government actually needs to do.
Go to the site and become part of the "TOKE VOTE."