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Colorado grows a solution

You go, Colorado! Colorado projects a $25 million annual tax boon, and growing, from medical marijuana. By comparison, progressive Washington state marketed, and literally banked on, greater consumption (by way of greater access) of grain alcohol – and, predictably, increased DUI revenue. Look it up.

It’s time to shift the dominant paradigm to the 99 percent, and away from corporate America. The Drug Enforcement Administration lets your doctor prescribe Marinol (active ingredient: delta 9-THC, same as – wait, wait, guess – right: pot). How many unsuspecting patients will go on to sue their medical providers? And all brought to you by, guess who? Right: the DEA and U.S. pharmaceutical companies, their benefactors.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, fellow Washingtonians. We’ve been punked.

John Arnold

Mead

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