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[edgarshade]

California's drug pushers have found a brilliant way to win liberal hearts and minds: form a union

Telegraph

By Tim Stanley US politics Last updated: March 23rd, 2012

With reader comments

It’s the oft-heard cry of the pro-marijuana set: “legalise or decriminalise cannabis and all the crime will go away.” Well, California has tried it and some people don’t agree. Particularly the poorer, non-Caucasian folks who have to live where it’s sold. You know, the people that liberals are supposed to care about?

News has just broken that Los Angeles is moving to crack down on “pot shops” that have opened up since California effectively decriminalised marijuana in 2010. There are roughly 900 marijuana dispensaries operating in the city – outnumbering Starbucks in some neighbourhoods. I lived in West Hollywood for a fair bit last year and never spotted a single one in this rich, white enclave. Head to Venice Beach or Long Beach and it’s like you’ve walked onto the animated set of Yellow Submarine.

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[slimvictor]

Yup.
Ain't no denyin'.

 

[Druide Panoramix]

So the dispensaries' employees are forming a union? Will this give them a better chance to get the DEA to fuck off? This begs the question, what could be done about prohibition if drug users organized and formed some sort of union or planed general drug-user strikes in whole cities, states or provinces? If all employed recreational drug users skipped work on the same day and loudly publicized why they are doing this, suddenly people would realize just how many we are, and also that our drug use does not justify the stigma associated with it. Either that, or we'd all get fired, since we're on hard times, there are many sober people waiting in line to get a job, at least, in some places this is the case.

 

[atrollappears]

You don’t have to have Rick Santorum’s prissiness to recognise that places that sell mind altering substances tend to “lower the tone.”

I agree. From now on 7/11s, grocery stores, liquor stores, or anything else that sells alcohol should be built outside city limits.

Even if a narcotic is legal and taxed, there will always be people prepared to offer a purer quality substance at cheaper levels.

Having lived in California before and after dispensaries sprung up, this is not the case.

The reason is that wherever you find business associated with vice, you get criminal activity.

Apparently Tim Stanley never bothered to read about the prohibition, because alcohol sale was only associated with organized crime when it was illegal.