Getting somewhere!

So after roughing out some more drawings I still wasn't pleased with the results. I went to class yesterday and got inspired with one of my drawings. It's kind of funny because I think it was the worst of them all!

So I started redrawing the picture of the Cannabis plant growing from a pot with money falling from it. And there is a government employee raking up all the money that has fallen. The pot read NON PROFIT LOCAL DISPENSARY, and the money falling from the tree represents the tax the government is imposing on the Medical Cannabis. After looking at it for a while I thought to myself "would anyone get that this is a government employee?" My next question was "what could portray the government that everyone could understand?" Then it clicked the Democrat Donkey and the Republican Elephant. The Elephant is raking the money and the Donkey is bagging them. Below are my sketches: