Bad Press For Medical Mary Jane

Today’s papers provided a couple of shocks: The LA Times tells us Los Angeles is not taxing the hell out of medical marijuana (see LA City Council Has Pot Epiphany, Calls for Taxing It), and the LA Weekly seems to think there are too damn many medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

The fact that the city isn’t squeezing the hell out of a growth industry in the midst of a recession is baffling. That the local alternative paper thinks this growth industry should be curtailed is downright astonishing.

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