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Who's rolling with the pot truck?
A bud tender displays medical marijuana at a dispensary in Los Angeles.
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Tess Vigeland: Californians will vote on an historic ballot proposition this year. One that would legalize possession of marijuana. Meanwhile, the state is still grappling with its current law, which allows marijuana use for medical purposes.
The latest battle lines are being drawn in the town of Norco, Calif. That's Norco, by the way, not narco. Two members of a medical marijuana collective were cited for operating a rolling dispensary. Selling pot out of a motorhome. The couple says they will fight the citation in court.
The Marketplace Players know a few people who hope they win.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: La, la, la, la...
TRUCK DRIVER #1: Hey, dude. You're the dudes who sell weed, right?
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: Um, we are a roving medical cannabis dispensary.
TRUCK DRIVER #1: Right on; you cool if I park my truck over here beside you?
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: Uh, are you a patient?
TRUCK DRIVER #1: No, I sell tacos. I'll just pull it over here. All right.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: Um, you understand we cater to sick people, right?
TRUCK DRIVER #1: Yeah, sick with the munchies.
TRUCK DRIVER #2: Hey, you're the weed truck!
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: Medical. Cannabis.
TRUCK DRIVER #2 Cool. We're the peanut-butter pizza truck.
TRUCK DRIVER #1: All right! How long have you guys been around?
TRUCK DRIVER #2: Since we heard about the weed truck. We'll park over there.
TRUCK DRIVER #3: Hey, you got room for a jolly rancher and eyedrops truck?
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: No, we do not.
TRUCK DRIVER #2: Sure dude, over here, I'll guide you in!
MAN: Howdy.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA WOMAN: What're you selling?!!
MAN: Uh, I'm Woody Harrelson.
ALL TRUCK DRIVERS: WE'RE RICH!!!
I'm with Joey. I'm not high, juvenile or uneducated. I don't take light of people in chronic pain. I'm married to someone who suffers greatly and would benefit from the option to even have medical marijuana legalized in our state. And why can't serious issues and serious points be presented in a comical way? I have bi-polar disorder and can joke about it - this is a disorder that is just as serious. There is no reason to be so passionate about an issue that you cannot present it in a humorous fashion. It does show what a huge impact legalization would have on many economical and social aspects. They should be addressed & like any issue, will have people wanting to take advantage of it. I'd like to know if Woody laughed...either way - chill out people. If you want to pull your "funding" from NPR over this, you wanted to anyway.
I thought this was hilarious, and it also pointed out that the legalization of marijuana will have a massive impact on many sectors of the economy, not just for the growers, sellers, and taxers. And for the record, I wasn't high when I heard it.
