TAX MARIJUANA TRADE FOR STATE REVENUE

California is facing a terrible budget crunch, and poor families and
students of all ages are going to take it on the chin. When we go looking
for sources of tax revenue, what about the giant gobs of money in the
marijuana trade? So far only the police departments and the prison unions
are able to benefit financially from California's biggest cash crop, yet
they do this at taxpayer expense.

The marijuana trade in California is more than big enough to pay for the
social costs of marijuana abuse and for the shortfalls in the rest of our
state budget. Why are we letting this vast source of revenue go untaxed?

Patricia Schwarz, Pasadena