Finally -- the first city in the U.S. to approve a cannabis tax is now official: Oakland! Here's NORML's blog entry about it... too far north for me, personally (and, actually, I once stopped for gas in Oakland and decided not to leave the 880 on that side of the Bay in the future), but the hope is that more cities will pass similar measures, not only legalizing but regulating marijuana sales, and flipping a bird by default toward the federal government. ^^;