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Archive for April 30th, 2009

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Tax increase! Woo hoo!

By Thoreau
Oakland wants to tax medical marijuana.  It still has to go to voters, but if approved I predict that this tax would entrench the legal status of medical pot in a way that no other measure possibly could.  If this raises revenue then presumably other cities will follow suit, then states, and next thing [...]

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

In the clear, I think

By Thoreau
I just went through Customs screening at the Vancouver airport.  As you can see, I still have my laptop.  Supposedly there are no more searches after this, but if you don’t hear from me by this evening you can assume that my laptop was sent to Ft. Meade and I’m on my way to [...]