CNN Marijuana Fail: “Oakland’s bid to become the first U.S. city to tax proceeds on medical marijuana passed Tuesday by a landslide vote.”
O RLY? Arcata has taxed its medical marijuana clinics for many years — see this old Journal story on the
This article appears in Fixing the World.

I’ve seen the same position about Oakland elsewhere and have been curious if there was something different about taxing the dispensaries in the two cities that I was missing.