There are actually real problems and crimes to solve out there. The drug war is only cultivating an underground business that is never going to go away, and will only perpetuate the allure of gangs and organized crime (Prohibition...history repeating itself...). There are proposed solutions, and there are arguments against those, but I think the U.S. is grown up enough as a nation to stop beating a dead horse and develop a true drug policy that reflects realistic goals and specific outcomes. I have relatives who are addicted to meth, and seeing the police waste their time on something that is inconsequential, when compared to the real gateway drug (alcohol), makes me sick. I know that keeping cannabis illegal is far too profitable for law enforcement, and in a way it may help to fund other genuinely beneficial endeavors, but there's another side to that coin. Excise taxes are proven to be a good way to raise funds for education or whatever a state government needs, and cannabis is a gold mine that is waiting to be exploited. Good old capitalism is at work in the black market, and opening the blinds to lighten that dirty place up a bit will certainly be a step toward solving problems, rather than creating new ones like what's happened to the people in this video. I do have to agree that they shouldn't have broken the law that they are so lucky to have in the first place, but a little civil disobedience can go a long way.

Yeah, we lack the comedic gold mine that is America these days. And yes, that was Toronto's darkest hour (I mean when Whacko McNutjobMan was elected mayor).

It's a goldfish gold mine!

it's a Lithuanian honey gold mine!

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It probably is worth 6 grand if you had the right ad revenue over a year (maybe this is 5 years?). I'm thinking this site probably isn't 1/10th of fark traffic but maybe. Certainly attracts high salary intellectuals. Maybe this site is a gold mine for politcal ads. (hint: I'm serious about sifting political ads over the next year. You'd get a lot of traffic)

He was psyched about getting his star, also way back in the before time when we were pondering the first sift upgrade, I agitated for a gold mining "sifter" rather than a flour "sifter" calmer heads prevailed, but everytime I see the icon I think about it.