THAT'S WHY I CALL IT KOOKFORNIA

The kookiness of San Fransicko must have rubbed off on Oakland, its neighbor across the bay. On Tuesday, by a 5-2 vote, the Oakland city council approved the authorization of four huge pot factories that would supply its products to the city’s four ‘medical’ marijuana dispensaries.

Those pot pharmacies sold $28 million in marijuana last year, a sure sign that doctors were knowingly writing pot prescriptions to a lot of people with faked ailments.

The owners of Oakland’s pot dispensaries were behind the proposal while hundreds of pot growers opposed the pot factories, claiming that they would destroy the growers’ livelihood. Oakland’s business community supported the pot factory proposal because, according to the Los Angeles Times, "it could turn Oakland into the Silicon Valley of pot, create jobs and generate new tax revenues."

President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, have ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency NOT to enforce federal drug laws that run counter to Kookfornia’s ‘medical’ marijuana laws. It's bad enough that they forbade the DEA from raiding pot pharmacies, but what if Obama and Holder order the DEA not to raid those marijuana factories?

Once those huge pot factories are established, the Obama administration can no longer find any justification for not enforcing the federal laws which make the manufacture and distribution of marijuana a felony. I believe that Obama and Holder would be committing an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE if they would order the DEA not to shut those factories down and not to arrest the operators of these federally illegal facilities. If that would not constitute OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, nothing would.

This coming November, the people of Kookfornia will be voting on a referendum that, if approved, will legalize marijuana. My guess is that the referendum will be approved. If that does happen, Kookfornia will rue the day! Approval will not lead to the tax revenue bonanza trumpeted by the measure’s supporters. The backers of the referendum are the owners of the state’s marijuana dispensaries who stand to make billions of dollars when pot is legalized.

The legalization of marijuana will lead to an immediate increase in the use of pot. It will not destroy the black market because there will be a huge demand for pot by juveniles. There will be a remarkable increase in fatal automobile accidents caused by pot heads driving under the influence of marijuana.

And because MARIJUANA IS A GATEWAY DRUG, legalization will lead to a significant increase in the use of heroin, cocaine, meth and other illicit drugs. Once the use of marijuana becomes prosaic, pot heads – daily users as opposed to weekenders - will seek a better high by turning to more exotic drugs. That means the drug cartels will continue to thrive and continue on with their killing sprees.