PUB LTE: Tax Marijuana Trade For State Revenue
December 24, 2002
Los Angeles Times
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
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