$60 per plant: DEA waging costly war to destroy marijuana in Oregon despite drug’s legaliity10/3/2015 © Julie Gordon / Reuters Recreational marijuana use is legal in Oregon, but that hasn’t stopped the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) from engaging in an eradication program costing American taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.In 2014 alone, the agency spent $960,000 to remove 16,067 pot plants in the state of Oregon, where the drug was made legal in 2012. If you do the division, the price tag comes to almost exactly $60 dollars per plant destroyed. The number appears even more startling when considering the average nationwide per-plant-destruction cost is $4.20, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Much of this money goes towards funding helicopters that scout out marijuana farms from the sky, as well as having officers on foot uproot the plants that are spotted. Overtime pay alone cost taxpayers about $275,000 last year. Read more here at RT.com http://www.rt.com/usa/316552-dea-oregon-marijuana-destruction/
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Marijuana arrests have risen and the stoner stereotype of shiftless layabouts continue, but that hasn’t stopped several CEOs from running major companies while smoking pot.Corporate moguls like Bill Gates have supported the decriminalization of marijuana, and some like Facebook co-founders Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have even put up their own money to legalize pot.
But then there are a select few who have done so while also admitting to using marijuana either currently or at a certain point in life. Fortune recently presented a list of current and former CEOs from notable companies who have admitted to smoking pot. CEOs who-admit-to-smoking-pot/ |
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