Abandoned California Prison Sold to Medical Marijuana CompanyBy Joshua Krause The prison which once held over 500 inmates, was sold to the company for $4.1 million, which totally wiped clean the citys $4 million debt. The prison will soon be renovated and used by Ocean Grow Extracts to cultivate marijuana, and turn it into their cannabis oil products. The facility is expected to create 100 jobs for the community, and possibly more if the business takes off. For a town whose economy used to revolve around incarceration and crude oil, two industries that have been dwindling in recent years, the sale of this former prison is a godsend. Its believed that the 77,000 square foot facility could eventually end up generating $2 million in tax revenue for the city. As Mayor Patrick Keough put it, one company could take us out of the red in three years. The irony of this situation, which is not lost on marijuana advocates, is that this prison probably incarcerated countless harmless pot offenders over the years. But as the drug war comes to a close, the facilities of the prison-industrial complex are now being used to grow marijuana. Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger. Whats really ironic is that, in a world that seems to have gone mad on so many different levels, the Free The Weed movement is full steam ahead. Why would that be? My theory is that Big Pharma is behind it all. They first had to reverse the behemoth ship of peoples media manufactured perception of cannabis, plus include a hefty monetary benefit to financially-strapped states and communities while doing so, or they would not be able to push their patented GMO weed and laboratory CBD derivatives. In the near future, once the perception ship has altered course enough, they will inform us their unnatural versions of cannabis are far, far superior than just a plain, old weed that anyone grow on a windowsill. Even if they are not the initiators of this, they definitely will take it over.. with the help of the corrupt State. Hard to tell for sure, but if you follow the timeline from when they received their patents and when the medical marijuana movement took off well, I dont believe in coincidences any more anyway and certainly not this one. After decades of the Marijuana is an addictive gateway drug that ruins lives meme to the Cannabis/hemp is good for you meme this is just way too slick to be an accident. Ive always known it was good for you and I hope people will discover for themselves how wonderful this little weed from heaven really is, before Glaxo, Smith, Merck, Bayer, et al. destroy it. The Bayer/Monsanto merger is just icing on the cake. 