Gov. Steve Beshear told WHAS reporter Mark Hebert he has had trouble staying asleep at night recently due to worry about the state's fiscal situation:
"Beshear says he's spent some restless nights at the Governor's Mansion mulling over ways to deal with the huge budget shortfall."
That could be dangerous, Governor. Why not repeal prevailing wage and call it a night?
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BPB is still preaching the Republican line against "prevailing wages." Nothing like the BPB and Republicans waging economic war against working and middle class families.
Repealing prevailing wage laws is not going to solve Kentucky's financial crisis. There's $270 million a year being spent incarcerating non-violent marijuana users. That primarily benefits the private prison industry much to the delight of Republicans and likely BPB.
Recently, the Supreme Court’s Garden Grove v. Superior Court decision means that federal law does not prevent state and local governments from implementing medical cannabis laws adopted by voters or state legislatures. In short: federal law does not override state law on medical cannabis!
If states can pass medical marijuana laws, shouldn’t the same restriction on federal law be applicable to recreational marijuana and industrial hemp laws? Hopefully Governor Beshear and Kentucky legislators will take the initiative and introduce both medical marijuana and industrial hemp laws. Louie Nunn (R-KY) would be delighted!
Medical and recreation marijuana, and industrial hemp would be an economic boon to Kentucky's agriculture economy as well as producing thousands of high tech jobs for research and development of over 50,000 products that can be made from hemp.
California takes in about $100 million a year in taxes on the sale of medical marijuana. Add recreational marijuana and industrial hemp products to that and the amount of revenue Kentucky could realize would solve Kentucky’s budget shortfall.
Why not urge the Governor to introduce legislation to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp?
Were all things hemp legalized, Kentucky would soon become a rich state and wouldn't have to deal with these financial crises by trying to raise the taxes on cigarettes or allowing casinos.
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