Michigan Governor: Smoking Tons of Weed Could Fix Our Terrible Roads

Jalopnik ^ | 05/30/2019 | Rafi Schwartz

[Responsibility2nd]

Pot for Potholes,

Cute.

[RedStateRocker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pEKwVl9tA

[ClearCase_guy]

Every man, woman, and child would have to smoke about $2,500 of marijuana a year to fix our roads. And let’s be honest, at that level no one’s gonna care about the damn roads.

Someone gets it.

[KC_Lion]

I hate to be cynical but, it won't.

The state government won't spend those dollars any wiser than it has all your other taxes.

[Engedi]

We just back from Colorado and their roads are amazing. No potholes in the areas we were in(Loveland, Denver and Estes Park) With pot taxes and toll roads makes a difference. We go to Ohio, Indianna and other states are always better then Michigan. They rob the funds for our roads every year.

Last year blew a hole in my tires in the sidewall getting on ramp to I-94 from a pothole. Bent my rim.

[cuban leaf]

If it was legal in my state, I was a pot smoker, and I had seeds, I’d simply grow my own. Heck, I did it in the mid-70’s easily enough. The stuff is a weed, for crying out loud.

[DannyTN]

You won’t need roads.
You’ll just want to sit on your back porch and smoke pot and not bother nobody.

[Loud Mime]

You were in the high-rate tourist areas. They take good care of those roads.

[MomwithHope]

Just say Yes!

[I want the USA back]

Government pushing pot, trying to get millions of people hooked on pot and becoming unproductive members of society. That won’t work. Obviously she’s a democrat.

[ßuddaßudd]

$2500 aint a lot of budd ..

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Isn’t $2,500 a lot of pot smoking for a year (or two)?

5.56mm

[Boogieman]

“Every man, woman, and child would have to smoke about $2,500 of marijuana a year to fix our roads.”

Like, hey man, I don’t even live in Michigan, but I’m willing to help out...

[TheStickman]

Government always does things as foolishly as possible.

This is just another example.

[sharkhawk]

Am I misreading this? People are claiming that pot taxes will do all these amazing things, and the governor is saying that there won’t be some huge windfall it sounds pretty smart to me

[Larry Lucido]

Headline doesn’t match the story.

[Vaduz]

Michigan Governor may want to check with California on that plan didn’t work out however tire sales are still doing great.

[SunkenCiv]

Whitmer’s “pot for potholes”... a similar line in a speech to the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce earlier this month.

What's her FR nick?

[NormsRevenge]

It’d be cheaper to stuff the pot in the potholes ... but then the road fatality rate would take off like a rocket from pothole thieves getting run over.

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t like the current governor, but why create fake news? Idiot blogger.