Strange News: Click through the celebrity photo slide show below to see how many famous pot smokers and world renowned Stoners you know. Part 3 of 3 in a photo gallery series about the Celebrity OOPS arrest and Celebrity Scandal report related to the popular green lifestyle drug of choice in Hollywood. There is no rumor involved -- all the celebrities, stars, and starlets listed here have been arrested for possession of illegal property, which in this case happens to be what many claim to be the least harmful and most beneficial medicinal relaxation drug Marijuana.
HISTORY OF 2009 PUSH TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN CALIFORNIA
Interesting and provocative story excerpt from Drug Policy News relating to the economy of California and the potentially positive benefits of legalizing marijuana:
Legalizing Marijuana in California Worth $1.4 Billion a Year in New Revenue, Says State Board of Equalization
New Estimate Exceeds Earlier Projections, As State Nears Fiscal Collapse
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Contact: Stephen Gutwillig (323) 542-2606 or Tommy McDonald (510) 229-5215
“The Board of Equalization has confirmed that marijuana already plays a huge role in the California economy, but unfortunately it’s underground and totally out of the state’s control,” said Stephen Gutwillig, California state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Assemblyman Ammiano is right to propose harnessing that market and allowing the state to redirect scarce criminal justice resources to matters of greater public safety. It’s time to rethink our unenforceable pot laws and take the marijuana market back from the cartels and regulate it effectively.”
The BOE analysis factors in that “legalization of marijuana would cause its street price to decline by 50 percent” and concludes that the impact on state revenue of the bill’s provisions for strictly limited personal cultivation “is likely to be minimal.”
This report on the fiscal impact of AB 390 amplifies the escalating national discussion of marijuana policy and alternatives to decades of failed prohibition. A television ad by Marijuana Policy Project, explicitly calling for California to address its catastrophic fiscal crisis by taxing pot, recently made headlines across the country. Several local TV stations rejected the spot as too controversial, only fueling this once-taboo debate. Meanwhile Northern California activists, led by medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee, aren’t waiting for Sacramento to act; they have drafted a voter initiative to tax and regulate marijuana in California and may begin gathering signatures to qualify for the 2010 ballot.
“Momentum to radically change direction in marijuana policy grows by the week, especially here in California, the state that led the nation in adopting medical marijuana,” said Gutwillig. “As this state’s fiscal crisis worsens a growing majority of Californians are demanding taxation of our state’s largest cash crop. We can’t borrow or slash our way out of this deficit. The Legislature must consider innovative sources of new revenue, and marijuana should be at the top of that list.”
The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) today r[July 15, 2009] released its analysis of AB 390, a bill introduced by San Francisco Assembly Member Tom Ammiano to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. The analysis concludes that the state would generate $1.4 billion dollars in new revenue, a slight increase from BOE Chair Betty Yee’s preliminary estimate in February.
MORE CELEBRITY PHOTOS
Celebrity OOPS: Celebrities caught with illegal substances
(Marijuana arrest photo files part 1)
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Celebrity OOPS: Celebrities caught with illegal substances
(Marijuana arrest photo files part 2)
Celebrity Interview: Bill Maher
speaks about legalization of Marijuana
in California
Celebrity Photos of stars arrested for illegal possession of Marijuana
Many of the current 21st century stars pictured here are on board and helping to organize campaigns for the legalization of marijuana -- making themselves public targets for ongoing criminal investigation.
Some stars from the 20th century are now deceased.
Others, however, have struggles with drug abuse and alcohol related legal difficulties.
Those celebrities, ones who have addiction issues, are unlikely candidates to serve as pot smoker poster children for NORML -- the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation.
Famous celebrities known to smoke the "wacky tobaccy" are often targeted for police arrest. The following celebrity photos will show you many names and familiar movie, singing, and television faces you know. All have been arrested for the possession of illegal drugs or paraphernalia property.
Comments
i went into Red Lobster in Memphis and the lobby was loaded (no pun intended) with about 30 people. The hostess walked up to me and said "What is your smoking preference?" "Well that would be marijuana" I said with out missing a beat and the whole room broke out in laughter. The question should have been "Smoking or non smoking?" If you ask I will tell you.
Prohibition=failed.
Live like it's legal.
Cannabis for your physical and mental well being.
A World Health Organization survey of 17 nations just discovered
that Americans and New Zealanders have the planet's highest
rates of marijuana use -- even though they have some of the most
draconian drug laws. Over 40 percent in both countries have tried
marijuana. No other nation was even close.*
Holland, on the other hand, has the world's most liberal drug
policies and their marijuana use is half that of the U.S. and New
Zealand.
How do the Dutch do it? They don't bait young people by
making drugs seem glamorous. As the Netherlands Minister of
Health said, “WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN MAKING POT BORING.”
Why don't we try doing it their way instead of spending $10
billion to arrest over 800,000 people every year for marijuana possession?
Can't we all just get abong? On March 22, 1972: The Richard Nixon-appointed, 13-member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended the decriminalization of marijuana, concluding, "[Marijuana's] relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it." Despite the recommendation against marijuana prohibition by his own well qualified National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, president Richard Nixon started the war on drugs and escalated the myth that marijuana is a dangerous drug.
Where are all the dead bodies? Where are all the sick people?
If 1 joint slows you by almost half and with two you're pushing 3/4, where are all the people moving in slow motion?
I think the fear of marijuana is dying quickly.
Bill. The potheads in prison are their because they broke the law, not for pot. I guess you're too stupid to figure that out.
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