So just another government program, then

West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Pot Tax Was Supposed to Help Kids, but Look Where It's Going Instead

You knew it was a scam the second the grifting sacks of poo said a new California pot tax would be used to fund programs to stop child addiction. That's nonsensical on so many levels that you'd have to think Joe Biden was really a present president to believe it. It's so nonsensical that you'd have to think that Steve Bannon's excuses for his cozy texts with Jeffrey Epstein are sincere. It's so nonsensical on so many levels that you'd have to be as dumb as a California voter to fall for it. 

And here we are.

CAL DOGE has discovered that the money intended for child addiction programs, drawn from the proceeds of the pot tax, is actually going to radical left-wing get-out-the-vote (GOTV) programs. 

When California voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, they were told cannabis tax revenue would fund youth substance abuse prevention. Six years and $370.25 million later, Rhetor's AI-powered forensic audit — conducted in partnership with CAL DOGE — reveals where that money actually went: into a sprawling network of 517 grants funding political organizing, voter registration drives and "social justice youth development," all administered by a single nonprofit intermediary most Californians have never heard of. 

CAL DOGE reports that the funds bankrolled an alphabet soup of far-left groups that received the grant money, skimmed 20% off the top, and funded wild-eyed radical programs. The biggest recipient funded only groups promoting "social justice youth development" and "civic engagement" as criteria for grantees — terms that appear nowhere in the statutory language of Prop. 64's Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention, and Treatment Account.

The group received $4,126 per client, who never received drug counseling, but instead, participated in "civic engagement" workshops, leadership development seminars, and "community mobilizing" training.