Percentage of Los Angeles voters surveyed in October who want dispensaries regulated rather than prosecuted: 77 (Source: Marijuana Policy Project study).
Percentage of L.A. voters surveyed who say they support California’s Medical Marijuana Program: 74 (Source: MPP study).
Estimated annual dollar amount (in millions) of L.A. cannabis-club sales: 400-plus (Source: California NORML).
Dollars (in millions) cut from the Los Angeles Unified School District budget in 2009: 400 (Source: LAUSD).
Estimated dollar amount (in millions) of sales-tax revenue generated annually from L.A. cannabis-club sales: 36-plus (Source: Cal NORML).
Dollars (in millions) needed to clean up DDT contamination in the waters off the Palos Verdes Peninsula: 36 (Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
Average number of employees in a typical L.A. medical-cannabis dispensary: 7.4 (Source: The Los Angeles Independent).
Number of raids by state and federal officers on cannabis operations this year in California: 665 (Source: Los Angeles Times).
Percentage increase for raids this year over the number of raids in 2008: 19 (Source: Los Angeles Times).
Budget deficit (in millions) projected for the city of L.A. in fiscal year 2010: 800 (Source: Los Angeles Mayor’s Office).
Number of cannabis plants destroyed in L.A. County this year under the state’s annual marijuana eradication program: 340,187 (Source: California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Percentage increase that number represents over last year’s eradication effort: 400 (Source: California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Mendocino County’s ranking among California’s 58 counties in median income, excluding income from marijuana: 48 (Source: Mendocino County report).
Mendocino County’s ranking among 58 counties in median income, including income from marijuana: 18 (Source: Mendocino County report).
Total dollar increase (in millions) in retail buying power that cannabis provides Mendocino County residents: 58 (Source: Mendocino County report).
Number of cannabis plants eradicated in Mendocino County this year under California’s annual eradication program: 440,689 (Source: California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Percentage increase over last year’s eradication effort in Mendocino County: 48 (Source: California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Number of cannabis plants (in millions) destroyed statewide this year under California’s annual eradication program: 4.5 (Source: Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Statewide percentage increase that that number represents over last year’s eradication effort: 36 (Source: Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement).
Estimated wholesale dollar value (in billions) of cannabis plants eradicated in 2009 statewide: 17.8 (Source: State of California).
Projected 2010 deficit (in billions) for California’s unemployment insurance fund: 17.8 (Source: San Francisco Chronicle).
