Now that California has finally passed a budget and can get back to work, a state lawmaker and three middle-school administrators have turned their attention to dealing, in different ways, with the state’s booming, illegal trade in marijuana.

As The Los Angeles Times reports today, three of the people in charge of the George K. Porter Middle School in the city’s Granada Hills district were removed from their posts this week after they conducted a private “sting” operation, in which they