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Bankrupt San Bernardino looks at marijuana sales to raise funds
Reuters ^ | 07/31/2014 | Tim Reid

Posted on 07/31/2014 9:14:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

(Reuters) - The city attorney of bankrupt San Bernardino, California, has a novel idea for raising new revenue - open medical marijuana dispensaries to sell pot.

As San Bernardino struggles to deliver a bankruptcy exit plan two years after it filed for Chapter 9 protection, city attorney Gary Saenz says marijuana sales should be part of the southern California city's income.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: cannabis; legalmarijuana; liberalagenda; libertarianagenda; marijuana; pot; whynotcocaine; whynotecsrasy; whynotecstasy; whynotheroin; whynotmeth; wod
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They should legalize prostitution while they're at it.
1 posted on 07/31/2014 9:14:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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The best bet would be a tax on undocumented residents.


2 posted on 07/31/2014 9:16:56 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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Wow...leagl gambling, legal prostituion and legal narcotics use. This visit to Amsterdam is really cool...

Wait! what?


3 posted on 07/31/2014 9:17:52 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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Maybe they could sell quarts of Colt 45 Malt Liquor, too.


4 posted on 07/31/2014 9:18:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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Naa, cut the small stuff.

Just lease the entire city to the cartels if morality no longer matters and you want the big bucks.

/sarc


5 posted on 07/31/2014 9:20:48 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This stuff would be a riot if it wasn’t our own country’s idiots


6 posted on 07/31/2014 9:21:09 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Get rid of "birthright citizenship" Out of room . . . no mas)
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To: BwanaNdege

may as well,, the nation is being ceded to illegals little by little anyway.


7 posted on 07/31/2014 9:21:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They could partner with a cartel and offer cocaine, heroin and other assorted items.


8 posted on 07/31/2014 9:22:30 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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There are nine states in the union where the government maintains a direct monopoly on the sale of hard liquor. Marijuana is just the next logical step for a Government addicted to money.


9 posted on 07/31/2014 9:23:20 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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“The best bet would be a tax on undocumented residents.”

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Even the Taxifornia Libs would have to hire more people to figure out how to spend all the new revenue....well, we could build more prisons which we need.


10 posted on 07/31/2014 9:23:37 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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I knew a lot of guys in college who supplemented their income with marijuana sales. They were subject to arrest and incarceration.

But I guess it’s okay if the vending party is the State.


11 posted on 07/31/2014 9:24:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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Approved by Cheech & Chong.
12 posted on 07/31/2014 9:24:57 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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No matter what the source itll never be enough. They can tax the air and water but itll never be enough to fund their perpetually broken agenda. Isnt this a text book defn of insanity?


13 posted on 07/31/2014 9:27:47 AM PDT by 556x45
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Prostitution is legal in Nevada. California should do a study and find out how it's impacting the state of Nevada.
14 posted on 07/31/2014 9:28:30 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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“They should legalize prostitution while they’re at it. “

Why not declare the city an “Indian Reservation,” and open a casino?


15 posted on 07/31/2014 9:31:55 AM PDT by vette6387
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Anyone on FR in favor of this proposal needs to search the FR archives to learn how San Bernardino CA got into this bankruptcy mess in the first place.

San Bernardino is basically a crime family that wants to sell drugs.

16 posted on 07/31/2014 9:37:00 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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So. Are they going to have “City” ‘doctors’ write the dispensations, er...uhhhh...’prescriptions?’


17 posted on 07/31/2014 9:40:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Responsibility2nd

Several state and local governments have gotten into the drug trade so far. It’s one of the preludes to slavery under fascism.


18 posted on 07/31/2014 9:43:22 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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San Bernardino looks at marijuana sales to raise funds


Me too.


19 posted on 07/31/2014 9:49:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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BAHAHAHAHA! Let’s all blow our budgets to hell, and then sit back and get high!


20 posted on 07/31/2014 9:50:18 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
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