No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says

[RainDog]

180. He's an economics professor at Harvard

whose work looking at the economics of the drug war has been funded by the Cato Institute. That doesn't discredit his work, especially when it is supported by others who are not funded by the Cato Institute in social democratic nations in other parts of the world, for instance, and in other universities in the U.S.

It's funny because my response was directly related to the link you provide.

You read it and think he's applying propaganda, without actual concern about the issues he spoke about, which are the ones I mentioned, which were the provisions in the law - this is the overreach he talks about in terms of claims of economic benefit, the way in which the Prop was written as overreach because of LEGAL issues related to provisions within it.

However, I will agree that your comments about the proliferation of cannabis shops without input from people in a community has caused public relations harm. Venice Beach, however, isn't exactly an example of a place that, say, bears any relation to Orange Co.

It's interesting that you discount the impact of decriminalization, however, when, by doing so, the Gov. offered a way for users to possess small amounts of cannabis while growers in N. CA still operated illegally and thus were able to maintain higher profits because of the greater risk.

This is no small issue in CA, it seems to me. But, hey, I could be wrong.