{"id":10090,"date":"2013-12-27T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T06:58:07","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10090","title":{"rendered":"SFGate: Attorney General: Marijuana Legalization Would Save Calif. &#8220;Hundreds of Millions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SFGate: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2013\/12\/attorney_general_marijuana_leg.php\">Attorney General: Marijuana Legalization Would Save Calif. &#8220;Hundreds of Millions&#8221;<\/a> by Chris Roberts:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forget social justice, equality, and doing the right thing &#8212; when it comes to getting it done, politics and policy are all about that money.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of marijuana legalization have long argued that ending the war on a plant and lifting prohibition on cannabis means big money for California. And Attorney General Kamala Harris agrees with them.<\/p>\n<p>If California legalized marijuana, the state would save &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars,&#8221; according to the Attorney General&#8217;s office. That&#8217;s on top of hundreds of millions more in potential tax revenue &#8212; meaning legal weed could, conservatively, put California half a billion dollars in the black.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s real money.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t Harris being weed-friendly, either: this is an analysis required by law. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There goes her chance of getting appointed to SCOTUS?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}