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Press Release: Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars
Printer Friendly Version Email this Article Posted in In the Trenches by David Guard on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 2:13pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2007
Contact: Clifford Schaffer, tel: 661-268-0442, e-mail: [email protected]

Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars

August 6 -- A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us Pay Taxes makes the offer through its web site LetUsPayTaxes.com. The offer comes at a time when the California legislature is deadlocked on a new budget and California has stopped issuing checks for vitally needed social services. Legislators are currently arguing over which programs will be cut in order to balance the budget.

â??It is ridiculous that California canâ??t pay its bills,â?� said spokesman Clifford Schaffer. â??It is a tragedy that they will cut badly needed services and programs such as medical care for the elderly and prison drug treatment when the money to fund all these programs and more is there and available. Everyone who is currently waiting for a check from the state should be enraged at this foolishness.â?�

Regulation and taxation of marijuana could produce six billion dollars in additional tax revenue, according to economic studies linked from their web site LetUsPayTaxes.com. In addition, it could save up to ten billion dollars in enforcement costs. â??That is a conservative estimate,â?� said Schaffer. â??By other estimates, the revenues could be five times that. The economists are with us all the way on this one. Marijuana prohibition is an economic disaster.â?�

â??Letâ??s face reality,â?� Schaffer says. â??Marijuana legalization is inevitable. The situation is already beyond control in California. The state and local authorities have offered safe harbor for medical marijuana use and the Federal Government simply doesnâ??t have the resources for effective control.â?� More importantly, says Schaffer, the operators of the medical marijuana clubs are no longer afraid of the Federal Government. â??If you talk to them, you will find that they know they are going to win this battle. They know that the DEA is vastly outnumbered and canâ??t begin to prosecute all of them. The few that are prosecuted are accepting their fate as martyrs because they know that what they are doing is right. They are willing to sacrifice themselves to make the point that the Federal Government has just gone too far in interfering with very personal and private decisions. There is no way the DEA is going to win this battle. At this point, it is all over but the counting of the money â?? and the victims of the DEA.â?�

Schaffer went on to say that the national market for marijuana has been estimated from a low of ten billion dollars per year to more than fifty billion dollars per year. â??The first states to regulate and tax marijuana will receive an economic bonanza bigger than the original California Gold Rush,â?� says Schaffer. â??Some states will get rich like the Saudis.â?� Schaffer predicts that it will not take long for some local areas to wake up to the economic possibilities. â??We are talking potentially big bucks here,â?� he said. â??The Canadians are already starting to take note of a cannabis-fueled economic boom in some areas. Politicians canâ??t resist fresh cash, especially when it is coming to their local community. There will be big winners and losers here. The winners will be the ones who recognize the foregone conclusion first.â?�

The group also cites foreign terrorism as a reason to regulate and tax marijuana. â??Drug Czar John Walters is being dishonest when he says that marijuana money goes to criminals and terrorists. The only reason any of that money goes to criminals or terrorists is because of the prohibition that Walters supports,â?� said Schaffer. â??Marijuana prohibition makes criminals rich just like alcohol prohibition did. The criminals are now so rich and powerful that they can challenge the legitimate governments of their own countries. There is no reason to send billions of dollars per year to foreign criminal gangs when patriotic Americans make the best products in the world. There is no reason to suffer such a huge foreign trade deficit when that money could be providing jobs and funding badly needed services right here in the USA.â?�

Let Us Pay Taxes calls upon all US citizens to sign their petition at their web site LetUsPayTaxes.com - Let Us Pay Taxes! and press the issue with their lawmakers. â??Take the money, please,â?� said Schaffer. â??These people want to contribute. Now it is up to our politicians to tell us why they want to send those billions to foreign criminal gangs rather than to their own voters.â?�








FUCKIN RIGHT... it is a matter of time... and money is what moves all legislature... california is definately the state to lead way.... and once the rest of the world see unbelieveable profit, you better believe they would follow suit... that being said fuck prohibition

[Matt the Funk]

W007!

[cannabisis4for20]

Press Release: Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars
Printer Friendly Version Email this Article Posted in In the Trenches by David Guard on Mon, 08/06/2007 - 2:13pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2007
Contact: Clifford Schaffer, tel: 661-268-0442, e-mail: [email protected]

Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars

August 6 -- A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us Pay Taxes makes the offer through its web site LetUsPayTaxes.com. The offer comes at a time when the California legislature is deadlocked on a new budget and California has stopped issuing checks for vitally needed social services. Legislators are currently arguing over which programs will be cut in order to balance the budget.

â??It is ridiculous that California canâ??t pay its bills,â?� said spokesman Clifford Schaffer. â??It is a tragedy that they will cut badly needed services and programs such as medical care for the elderly and prison drug treatment when the money to fund all these programs and more is there and available. Everyone who is currently waiting for a check from the state should be enraged at this foolishness.â?�

Regulation and taxation of marijuana could produce six billion dollars in additional tax revenue, according to economic studies linked from their web site LetUsPayTaxes.com. In addition, it could save up to ten billion dollars in enforcement costs. â??That is a conservative estimate,â?� said Schaffer. â??By other estimates, the revenues could be five times that. The economists are with us all the way on this one. Marijuana prohibition is an economic disaster.â?�

â??Letâ??s face reality,â?� Schaffer says. â??Marijuana legalization is inevitable. The situation is already beyond control in California. The state and local authorities have offered safe harbor for medical marijuana use and the Federal Government simply doesnâ??t have the resources for effective control.â?� More importantly, says Schaffer, the operators of the medical marijuana clubs are no longer afraid of the Federal Government. â??If you talk to them, you will find that they know they are going to win this battle. They know that the DEA is vastly outnumbered and canâ??t begin to prosecute all of them. The few that are prosecuted are accepting their fate as martyrs because they know that what they are doing is right. They are willing to sacrifice themselves to make the point that the Federal Government has just gone too far in interfering with very personal and private decisions. There is no way the DEA is going to win this battle. At this point, it is all over but the counting of the money â?? and the victims of the DEA.â?�

Schaffer went on to say that the national market for marijuana has been estimated from a low of ten billion dollars per year to more than fifty billion dollars per year. â??The first states to regulate and tax marijuana will receive an economic bonanza bigger than the original California Gold Rush,â?� says Schaffer. â??Some states will get rich like the Saudis.â?� Schaffer predicts that it will not take long for some local areas to wake up to the economic possibilities. â??We are talking potentially big bucks here,â?� he said. â??The Canadians are already starting to take note of a cannabis-fueled economic boom in some areas. Politicians canâ??t resist fresh cash, especially when it is coming to their local community. There will be big winners and losers here. The winners will be the ones who recognize the foregone conclusion first.â?�

The group also cites foreign terrorism as a reason to regulate and tax marijuana. â??Drug Czar John Walters is being dishonest when he says that marijuana money goes to criminals and terrorists. The only reason any of that money goes to criminals or terrorists is because of the prohibition that Walters supports,â?� said Schaffer. â??Marijuana prohibition makes criminals rich just like alcohol prohibition did. The criminals are now so rich and powerful that they can challenge the legitimate governments of their own countries. There is no reason to send billions of dollars per year to foreign criminal gangs when patriotic Americans make the best products in the world. There is no reason to suffer such a huge foreign trade deficit when that money could be providing jobs and funding badly needed services right here in the USA.â?�

Let Us Pay Taxes calls upon all US citizens to sign their petition at their web site LetUsPayTaxes.com - Let Us Pay Taxes! and press the issue with their lawmakers. â??Take the money, please,â?� said Schaffer. â??These people want to contribute. Now it is up to our politicians to tell us why they want to send those billions to foreign criminal gangs rather than to their own voters.â?�








FUCKIN RIGHT... it is a matter of time... and money is what moves all legislature... california is definately the state to lead way.... and once the rest of the world see unbelieveable profit, you better believe they would follow suit... that being said fuck prohibition

he he he............ Well, now California has a decision to make. Keep the blood money and help out the state, or, refuse and let the state go to hell. Like the article says, it was unavoidable. They sell an illegal substance which carries a huge profit and now the activists have made enough money influence the law.

[slipknotpsycho]

yeah erm... i'll be happy when he accepts and money actually changes hands... until then for all iknow it's just a bunch of kids trying to stir shit up.

[Blindman0v0]

Thats a hell of an offer.I would love to see the governator have the balls to accept the offer.If any state could make this work it would be California,then maybe the flood gates would be opened.:rasta:

[make it legal]

Why would dealers want to legalize it? That makes no sense to me.

[Raider187]

Yeah the dealers make more money if it stays illegal, however, everyone will travel to Cali to smoke up knowing they wont get in trouble for it. So if you think about it there is a possibility that if its made legal only in Cali the money that they make from out of staters would more than make up for the lost profits. If this goes through I'm moving back to Long Beach.

[cannabisis4for20]

Why would dealers want to legalize it? That makes no sense to me.

I called them dealers because that was the title of the article, but I shouldn't have. I think it was just a biased reporter putting that title in the article. These are the same farmers that supply the medical shops.

[Mike23artist]

thats pretty fucking cool i wanna get a bag of weed for this weekend hell yea