Here's another fine example of your tax dollars at work (or at least the tax dollars of those here in the Bay Area):
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So what they're doing is requiring medical marijuana dispensaries...........to set aside a portion of their cannabis............to give away free............to poor people. Boy, there's nothing that's going to get the impoverished on their feet and back into the workforce like a good toke, is there? Incidentally, it wasn't a close vote by the Berkeley Council: it was unanimous.
I read this within an hour of reading this article [3] stating, in part, "Teenagers who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to complete high school than those who never use. They're also 60 percent less likely to graduate college and seven times more likely to attempt suicide."
It's almost enough to make you think the powers that be want the poor to stay poor. Heh.