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Lies, damn lies and LBB fiscal notes: Why it's really not free to make K2 possession a felony

Marc Levin from the Texas Pulbic Policy Foundation emails to alert me to another absurdist budgetary claim on criminal penalty enhancements from the Legislative Budget Board: A "zero Fiscal Note for legislation making K2 possession a felony!" (K2 is a form of currently legal, synthetically produced marijuana.) Suggested Marc, "You might want to explore on Grits how this legislation could have a zero fiscal note given that it makes possessing even the smallest amount of K2 a felony. I guess they assume if it is outlawed, no one will use it. But that has not been the case with other drugs!"I wish that were the case. I'd like to believe LBB fiscal notes promote such absurdities because of an honest error, because somebody there really does believe that nobody will be incarcerated under such a statute if it becomes law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 25, 2011 (boomark / email).