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There is a bill, currently in the state assembly, to legalize marijuana in the state of California. It is AB-390, and it will be voted on on March 31st, and I am sick of the reasons stupid-ass stoners I know are using to justify the fact that they want to be able to get high all the time and not get in trouble.

Yes, I know all the reasons for making weed legal, and I get that it is probably the best way to actually fight the "war on drugs." HOWEVER. Pretending that legalizing marijuana is a good way to help save our ailing Californian economy. We have a $42 billion projected state deficit. Taxing pot will bring in, maybe, at most, $1.5 billion? That still leaves [heh, leaves] us $40.5 billion in the hole. So please stop saying it will save us. Also: we have legal medical marijuana. So stop bringing them into this. Sick people can get their drugs, so they're a-ok, especially now that the Obama justice department is going to reverse the Bushian policy of not-respecting-State's-Rights. All good on that front.

Basically, what it comes down to is that people want to smoke drugs and get stoned, and not deal with their lives, and apparently, as a state, we feel like that's a good idea.

Personally, I hope the bill fails, but regardless, can we get people to start being honest instead of pretending to have far-flung altruistic motives?

Kthnxbi