Legalizing marijuana in California will balance the budget!?

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Marijuana usage and consumption has always been against the law right? In the last few years marajuana has cautiously been released to select people who choose to pay for a liscense and then pay exorbitant rates for their "medication". I know several people who have licences and I know that other friends of ours use them to purchase marajuana from the storefronts where it is dispensed like cotton candy. Expensive cotton candy. The state is already making millions on the sale of marajuana and from what I hear the better part of central California fams are not growing much else! Now our the "Terminator" our governeor Arnold Swarzenegger says that the legalization of marijuana would generate enough money in taxes to balance the budget and even provide a surplus of tax revenue for the state. Uh good plan except for the fact that to flip flop on the issue of marijuana would open the door to other controlled substances being legalized. Check out this website for the numbers http://www.canorml.org/background/CA_legalization2.html We already know that marijuana is not as harmful to the body and mind as alchohol is and alchohol is totally legal to buy as long as you're over a cetain age. I am sure that they would regulate marijuana in the same fashion as tobacco products and alchohol. We all know how many underage consumers there are of those two products. But think about it, in 10 years when the state Government has come to depend upon that income and has grown used to basing their budget on it and we end up with another tax deficit what will they legalize then? Crack Maybe?