There is a HUGE economy just waiting......the range of products from marijuana and hemp, in cluding paper, medicine, food, fuel, plastics, building materials, and much more are just waiting for policies of ignorance and greed to fall......they will fall.....this is part of the reason for the OCCUPATION......we are committed, we will not leave, we are the 99%.......ignorance and greed in policy making is a dying meme.....choose life....put your leather on the streets...

Pot is the reason for our recession? It just seems if our government gave a damn about us, that they would be raiding companies that hire illegal aliens and putting the corporate officers in jail. Not raiding pot dispensaries, and actually costing jobs by doing so. Something tells me the priorities of our elected officials is being driven by someone with a completely different agenda than the overwhelming majority of Americans. Who the hell is running this stinkin country?????

One more reason to dump Obama and replace him with Ron Paul the only man that would actually end the war on drugs.

Waste Of Money!! If I was a California tax payer I would be pissed!

Where are the Republican voices on this????? All we have been hearing from the candidates is "States Rights"...... Where is Perry? This is a huge amount of voters that are going to turn on Obama AND Republicans if none of them come out in defense of States Rights......

You've got to love the government's hypocrisy,

"The intention regarding medical marijuana under California state law was to allow marijuana to be supplied to seriously ill people on a nonprofit basis," said U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, the top federal law enforcement officer for the San Francisco Bay area. "What we are finding, however, is that California's laws have been hijacked by people who are in this to get rich and don't care at all about sick people."

Just as the federal government is clamping down on medical marijuana dispensaries, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) may be set to give Big Pharma the clearance to take over the market.

Big Business (Pharma) has discovered the California Gold, and is about to commence the its slash mining. First step is to kick out the squatters.