[Zhang Fei]

[The problem is government did not live up to their side of the deal. Just like when alcohol was illegal and then made legal in 1933, these legal drug programs should have gotten rid of the illegal operations so legal could profit and pay taxes. ]

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If theft goes unpunished, and maiming or killing someone gets a slap on the wrist, why should merely producing a legal product, albeit illegally, be punished at all? The Democrat zeal for decriminalization of serious offenses has had wide-ranging secondary effects.

[Lockbox]

The answer is Taxes, Fees, Revenue. The government needs money to run, not protecting the golden goose reduces the gold! To either of us this makes perfect sense, but to the State of California who is driving major companies such as Google to lower employee head count in the State, nothing is logical! Lose these type of major high tech corporation employees who all pay taxes is absolute insanity. How will California pay for all it’s feel good programs?