Dandelions, sometimes used to make intoxicating wine, are a weed common in most of America.
Marijuana, sometimes ingested or inhaled as an intoxicant, is also a weed common in most of America.
Possession and use of the first weed is perfectly legal. Possession and use of the other weed is not.
What’s up with that?
How can it be illegal to harvest and consume a weed growing wild in backyards, foothills and forests?
California, home to tons of the stuff, is flirting with legalizing, cultivating, regulating and taxing pot for an estimated $l.3 billion in new revenue.
At least pot isn’t addictive—unlike alcohol, tobacco and gambling already regulated and taxed by the state.
Marijuana isn’t the only plant on the no-no list. Mushrooms and other wild producers of hallucinations also should be decriminalized and taxed. (17 MAY 2009)
