ive never heard of a drug dealer educated enough to care about 'the system'
and taxing pot in CA will not lead to federal funding, its a state tax remember. its still federally illegal so the 'big' govt cant use it for stupid wars.
also if you dont like that your state tax funds go to building bridges then use your civil rights and VOTE for a political figure who shares YOUR views. people are forgetting that no matter what laws/regs/ etc etc get put into place it was done because your votes wanted "political person" to represent YOU.
people forget that we the people choose who we want to represent us. if something goes that the masses dissaprove of then we as a whole must stand against what ever it is. unfortunetly human nature keeps us in check. many are not educated enough and are able to easily be influenced. others put information out in a quid pro quo to gain their support.
example: the war in iraq, bush stated many times through out the course of the war their was no weapons of mass destruction, but because of the terrorist attacks he used the peoples emotions to gain enough reason and support to invade a country that has NO WMDs. did iraq have small bands of groups with bad intentions, yes. we have that now in america, people who hate gays, gangs, those polygamist groups. and many of the times those "bad" people we killed were just locals who just didnt want us in their country. You wouldnt want people running up in your territory trying to tell you how to live right?
example 2: the whole city of bell corruption scandal. the city councel was extorting tons and tons of money from local citizens, well they DIDNT like it and they stood up for it and now look whos laughing. WE AS A NATION should use them as motivation to stand up against corruption.