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Found a very interesting article in the New York Times called Paying with our sins.

Basically it covers all the vices and how they can be legalized and taxed to provide additional revenue to run the United Stated in terms of reducing debt and funding project where money is most needed.

The vices to be taxed and regulated as everyone probably knows are gambling, drugs (including marijuana), sex (prostitution) and liquor. Well although the article is very brave in showing how money can be used to help the USA profit from these activities, it does not mention their negative effects and the money that would be required to help minimise those unwanted outcomes such as sex addiction.

Perhaps not the best idea to legalize all the the main vices, the New York Time certainly did pull together some very information material.

Don’t know what to listen to when smoking your next joint? Well if you are into hip hop and reggae influence then this tune rocks hard with the trio, Stephen & Damian Marleys ft. Snoop Dogg.

So just smoke your joint, lay back and chill to this hot track!

Lol – well can you smoke marijuana without Snoop Dogg – Heee lll Nooooo!

Check out this exclusive video about Snoop Dogg video being interviewed with High Times magazine. He also gets the Stoner Of The Year award and talks about how marijuana has been benificial to Hip Hop as before those days it was Cocaine!

Enjoy the stoney eyed interview with Snoop……

This is a hot tune by Krazie Bone called Smoke & Burn – we really liked it! Chronic and ganja, keep toking pot!

If you are looking for a very innocent interpretation of why we should legalize marijuana, then there is no one better than Bob Marley to tell you why. To sum it up, its just a plant! Its just a herb!

Scientists working for the government have been analysing samples of marijuana given to them after seizures of the illegal drug and found that the psychoactive ingredient, THC, has climbed for the last three decades.

The scientists have have found some marijuana that had a potency level of almost 30% THC and predict that on average these level will rise to about 15% in the next 5 to 10 years.

It is for these reasons that the UK had re-classed the drug back to class B and this evidence just not suggest that marijuana will be legalized in the USA any time soon.

Get the full CNN news article here and also check out the video of the marijuana report here.

Recently California’s governer Arnold Schwarzenegger said that it was time to talk and look at what other countries especially in Europe are doing. Its has just only been released today that Dutch coffee shops over the years have been dlcining through their closures by government. The UK has already re-graded Cannabis from a class C back to class B so all the evidence points to marijuana not being legalized and governers and politians simply leading the masses on to pass some time.

Most importantly in the US some states have already legalized marijuana for medical purposes and then it only leaves it to be legalized ofr the receationalists…. is an income based on recreational marijuana tax for a state such as California really going to cut it with the rest of the world?

Schwarzenegger and Obama have already dismissed this idea of legalzing for the sake of paying off state debts so that leave no other reason to successfully legalize the substance.

Although there has been a huge momentum behind the Illinois Senate bill to legalize marijuana for the use of medical uses, it is being called a “long shot”. The only way that Americans can see marijuana legalized in their state if one state initiates the process and then the rest will folllow. However this may or may not happen as it seems like ministers are willing to discuss the matter to perhaps only give false hope or to prevent giving any direct answer.

To put it quite simply if the US can ban gambling to the masses, this should give an indication to everyone that they are in no hurry to legalize marijuana. Although marijuana has many supporters for its use there are plenty against it such as polititions and religious groups. If the battle is to be won for its open use amongst chronic medical patients then it certainly looks like a marathon of a war rather than a quick victory.

“It’s time to debate” – is what the governer of California Arnold Schwarzenneger has recently said in a speech this week. California is the American state that is producing the most amount of marijuana and has become it number one cash crop, over taking the production of its other quality products such as wine.

The question is why has all of a sudden Schwarzenneger given a hint to the possibility of legalizing marijuana? Is it becuase we are in a recession and it has becoming tempting to legalize and tax marijuana to generate more money for the state? Is it because more and more pro marijuana activists are pilling on the pressure to governers that instead of Schwarzenneger fighting back he has said lets debate but with the intent of not legalizing mj and only to pass time in a diplomatic fashion?

Although their seems to be hope that marijuana will be legalized, the notion of the sole reason to do this for the benefit of generating money for the state has already been rejected as the Schwarzenneger and even Obama has said that there are other ways to do this.