I wrote on this same topic a year ago. This year, we may vote to remove the marijuana prohibition. Probably, you will soon see campaign rhetoric heat up. When you see arguments against removing prohibition, I ask you to consider who will benefit most from leaving the status quo in place.
Illegal drug cartels
Marijuana dispensaries and their landlords
Alcohol manufacturers and distributors
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Lawyers and courts
Hydroponic gardening stores
Prisons and their unions
Police eradication budgets
When you see or hear the campaign advertising against legalization, please consider the source carefully. The prohibition has been a complete failure. Criminalization of marijuana has been used as a means to ostracize minorities in the United States, incite fear against them amongst the general populace and to deprive medical patients of the medicine they desperately need. The Florida dispensaries are doing all they can to ensure that final point becomes a distant memory. Clearly, now is the time for the entire country to try something new. If you don’t believe that it could actually be time to end prohibition and allow people that suffer from a whole array of illnesses, whether physical or mental to have access to medical marijuana that could have the potential to improve their lives, then perhaps do some research into locations in which medical marijuana has been legalized. It doesn’t even have to be completely legal for medical or recreational reasons, for instance, if you were to visit a website such as https://cannaunion.com/product-category/cbd-vaping/ or somewhere similar, you’d be able to see that within the UK (where it is still, in fact, illegal to possess or cultivate cannabis) people that wish to benefit from CBD (cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid prevalent in the marijuana plant) can actually still do. This could be just one-way patients can benefit from medicines while still being inside the law. If cannabis is legal where you live and you want to try it, do some research into it first. For example, how would you like to smoke your marijuana? There are many different ways to smoke cannabis nowadays, including bongs, dab rigs, and pipes. You need to make a decision on which tool you’re going to use and how to utilize it, as well as how to look after it correctly. There’s usually many resources online that can help you with things like this, such as this article on cleaning your pipe by fat budda glass. It’s highly recommended that you do this before looking into where you can get your cannabis from. There are already many services offering legal cannabis to patients, for example over in Canada they have many different delivery services such as canadawideweed and others that will complete same-day deliveries for online medical marijuana orders. Such sites are also educational points for those that wish to learn more on marijuana use, benefits, and more. Click on the image for more thoughtful info.
This Friday and Saturday, you can watch Kool April cars do much more than slowly drive around in circles in town. Instead witness them blowing the doors off one another at the Redding Dragstrip. Did you know that Redding has the longest continuously operating NHRA dragstrip in the world? Redding has a long history as a car town. More info at: 
It’s a lovely building. Still, the central glass tower seems to serve no function other than providing full time glass cleaning jobs. As art, it’s beautiful. As a symbol, it doesn’t speak of thrift, or frugality, or savings, or any of those qualities one might associate with a retirement program. Such architectural hubris is not at all uncommon among big banks and securities firms, but this glass palace seems over-the-top for offices of state bureaucrats. But then, obviously they don’t see themselves as such, do they? The building speaks much louder than words.
This disconnect probably wouldn’t have caught my attention, were it not for the frustration of knowing we are unable to even do as much as house our police department in an abandoned shampoo factory in Redding. Or, that our city council appears to have been bullied into not buying a decent new office building across from city hall for 1/4 of what it cost to build it. In my opinion, this is such as missed opportunity. All it would take would be a few pieces of office furniture such as 
