"Over the past couple of years, the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles has exploded. Estimates vary, but there may be as many as 800 dispensaries currently open for business in the city of angels. An ordinance recently passed by the LA city council, however, is about to change all that.

The new ordinance will force hundreds of dispensaries to close and all but a few to relocate. The goal was to bring clarity to the medical marijuana industry, but the only thing that's clear is that the transition process will be difficult.

Especially now that the DEA has begun raiding dispensaries again, despite the promises made by the Obama administration.

While federal, state and local governments struggle to make sense of medical marijuana laws, an increasing number of Californians support a completely different approach: marijuana legalization. Nothing more than a pipe dream? Maybe. But consider this: 56 percent of Californians currently support pot legalization, the same proportion of Californians who voted for the Compassionate Use Act, which legalized medical marijuana, back in 1996."

I guess it's one of the great social experiments of our time. Maybe not as great as disemploying tens of millions of americans by moving all production to china and other low wage low oversight countries, but a major social experiment nonetheless.

I thought the comments about our national experiment in making alcohol illegal, and the fact that it ended in the great depression, because it simply cost to much for governments to keep chasing and jailing all those horrible alcohol drinkers, were interesting.