Tax and Regulate Bill Reintroduced in California
A landmark bill to tax and regulate marijuana, authored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), was reintroduced in the California legislature today. The proposal would make personal possession and cultivation of marijuana legal for adults over 21 and would institute a regulatory system for marijuana sales modeled after the one that already exists for alcoholic beverages.
Asm. Ammiano’s 2009 marijuana reform bill, A.B. 390, was approved in the Assembly Public Safety Committee last month but did not advance further due to legislative calendar constraints. This year’s bill, A.B. 2254, is expected to receive hearings in the next couple of months.
Stay tuned as this bill progresses. We’ll definitely have our plates full out here in California, as we work on this legislation and build public support for reform in a year when the state’s electorate will be voting on the Tax Cannabis 2010 initiative.
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Way to go Tom. Keep pushing.
1 if by land.
2 if by sea.
3 if by black van parked outside your grow-op.
Californian’s !
Get out and VOTE !
Vote that black van into de-commision !
Vote out and over grow big bro !
Its going to happen!!! I know it!
Make sure the support the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act as well!
Here it the link, please support OCTA: http://www.cannabistaxact.org/
“Make sure the support the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act as well!”
I meant to say: “Make sure to support the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act as well!”
I know how I’ll be voting come Nov. a lot of people from other states I know have changed their “state” of residence to Ca. and live in other states that will be voting via Mail ballot!
So if the “paid” lawmakers won’t vote it in then the real “people” will.
Take head, if you want another grey cannabis law let the people who care about the residents do it! NOV. here we come!
This is an un-related topic but I am from Kansas and have lived in Lawrence, GO KU!, and I also think that this news headline is outrageous and would love some feedback.
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/02/jon_sloan_fights_back_against_federal_drug_charges.php
This is a preview into what Medical Marijuana would encounter in Kansas. If the authorities will do this for a substance that was at the time legal, I can’t imagine how quickly dispensaries would be shut down. But, as living in Lawrence for a couple years and currently living about an hour away, it won’t be too hard for patients to get medicine on the black market.
FREE THE WEED!
A.B. 2254 and the Tax Cannabis 2010 Initiative?
Despite the continued and terrifying failure our current drug ‘enforcement’ laws, this is looking to be a good year ;-]
Go Cali! You make me smile!
Today California, tomorrow the nation!!!!!
as a louisiana native and someone who has thought deeply and considerately about the subject and even studied it against other drugs first hand by associating myself with people who did cocaine and other drugs it is my belief that letting responsible adults grow there own could result in drug dealers going to califonia to push marijuana out into the rest of the country. they already do it with medical weed just think if it was your everyday joe growing
anon. That is the point. If every one had the choice to grow their own the drug dealer would be unemployed and we all could keep our money. Our money would then be kept in our own pockets instead of some south of the border retirement fund. What’s so bad about that?
Only ten days to vote, ends March 12, 2010
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