http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1975161,00.html
All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday December 19, 2006
The Guardian
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Marijuana is now the biggest cash crop grown in the US, exceeding traditional harvests such as wheat, corn and soy beans, says a new report.
The study shows that 10,000 tonnes of marijuana worth $35.8bn (£18.4bn) is grown each year; the street value would be even higher. This dwarfs the $23bn-worth of corn grown, $17.6bn-worth of soybeans and $12.2bn-worth of hay. Marijuana is the biggest cash crop in 12 states, with the value of pot grown outstripping peanuts in Georgia and tobacco in North and South Carolina. In California, the biggest producer, it is worth $13.8bn.
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Only in America could we figure out how to make a weed the most important crop. What a joke! Yup, that “war” on drugs is really working.
Perhaps, if we really want the nation to be drug free, then we should direct Governments at all levels to try to require us to be drug addicts. In a decade, we’d be drug free. All thanks to, what I will call, “The Gooferment can’t do anything right” Law. Rule of thumb. Safe bet.
Can you answer the best question I ever heard from the boys over at Free Talk Live —- name a government program that works?
Reinke Faces Life 
Well, I’ll have to research that (i.e., volunteer better than paid). Libertarians always like to point out that the alternative to a government service maybe hard to visualize because it crowds out alternatives. So, while a government fire department maybe “ok”, it’s hard to establish the cost of such service. It’s usually hidden and not easily rooted out. The true cost is usually obscured by the “budgetting”. So, it not only has to work at an acceptable level but at a reasonable cost. Government can usually get something done if it throws enough money at it. And, if it doesn’t do it, oh well, it will keep throwing money at it until it does work enough.
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Just taking a crack at it…
I think there might be some Fire Departments out there somewhere that are OK? -although who knows – you’ll probably pull up some internet research that says that the volunteer kind work better :)
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