Yesterday Fox News reported that Californians consume roughly one million pounds of marijuana each year. (Somehow this doesn’t surprise us here at LA JEMM.)

This little factoid surfaced because State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana and charge a $50 sin tax per ounce sold via retail.

Potential benefit: if this bill passed, cashing in on marijuana sales would earn California about 1.4 billion dollars. Bye bye, deficit!

But passage of this bill depends on YOU. Make sure it happens: visit congress.org, type in your zip code to find your state representatives, and email them to let them know you support this bill. DO IT NOW!