'Dead Skunk Stench from Marijuana Farms outrages Californians

Name Instructor Course Date Article Reflection 3 Every action taken by a business entity or an individual may have an economic impact in a community. This is the same case shown in the central message of the articles ‘’ʻDead Skunkʼ Stench from Marijuana Farms outrages Californians’’ and ‘’New Jersey man says township wanted to charge him $8,000 a week for Christmas lights display.’’ Therefore this work will provide an analysis of the two articles to determine the impact of the central information that they show. The article ‘’ʻDead Skunkʼ Stench from Marijuana Farms outrages Californians’’ describes a situation where the public complains of stinky odor from the plantations. This follows the legalization of marijuana in the state where most people invest in the project and earns considerable amounts of dollars (Fuller 4). The issue of the smell calls for concern about the smell from the plantations that affect school students and neighbors. However, the article ‘’New Jersey man says township wanted to charge him $8,000 a week for Christmas lights display’’ raises a concern as to whether people should be charged for services offered to the public for free but raises an extra cost to the government. The Christmas lights were meant to improve security and public safety at the region (Loyer 3). However, the lights attracts more people who come to see them which cause heavy traffic and crowd, thereby, forcing the police to come in to control the situation. Though the lights are offered for free, it imposes an extra cost to the police department. The article about the business of growing marijuana relates to an economic concept of the negative externality. A negative externality is an additional cost to the community as a result of a business transaction. The smell from the plantations affects the members of the community who are not even benefiting from the business. The second article about the Christmas lights relates to the economic model of benefits and cost analysis of a given service. The cost of the service is seen to outweigh its benefits according to the police. Though the service improves public s...