California to consider legalizing all marijuana

[Goldstein1984]

Source: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/Planting-the-Seed-for-Legal-Pot-81222877.html

The first step to legalize marijuana in California could happen Tuesday.

Lawmakers will vote on Assembly Bill 390 -- legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The assembly's Public Safety Committee is expected to vote after a hearing that begins at 9 a.m. hearing in Sacramento.

The bill, authored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, would essentially treat pot the same way alcohol is treated under the law and would allow adults over 21 to possess, smoke and grow marijuana.

The law would also call for a fee of $50 per ounce sold and would help fund drug eradication and awareness programs. It could help pull California out of debt, supporters say, raising up to $990 million from the fees.

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Legalizing Marijuana in California (~ 10% of the U.S. population) would go a long way to eventually NORMLizing federal law.

[Cha]

1. That was my son's suggestion

a couple of years ago regarding California's dire straights. And, he doesn't live there anymore nor does any longer :smoke:

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. I've been advocating legalization and taxation for over 30 years...

since I was 16 years old. It's way overdue....


Peace,

Ghost

[arcadian]

6. How would you tax it?

[uncle ray]

7. sales tax and licensing.

there are currently 50% more medical cannabis dispensaries in denver than liquor stores, and who knows how many growers vending to them. all legal and paying taxes. most users would rather buy than grow, especially with strict plant limits as here in colorado.

[arcadian]

8. You think people who are clandestinely growing would submit to that?

No way.

[montanto]

9. They won't, not clandestine growers,

But I think grower/users are a minority of all users in Cali. I know I don't have any hard stats to back that up, but for the one grower/user I know, I know 20 people who use but don't grow. They could, but they don't. Many of the users I know are card holders too, but they still don't grow. Go figure.

Still, if they legalize and nobody wants to pay the per oz tax, everyone will be down at the grow shop buying lights and nutes hydro tables and shit, and paying 10% tax on that. It's Trickle-up dope-a-nomics.

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. My suggestion has always been through a sliding scale tax stamp at either the State or Federal level

Anyone caught buying, selling or possessing marijuana without a tax stamp would be treated the same way as someone with untaxed liquor (bootleggers).

I would pay $100 a year for a stamp to be able to possess up to one ounce of marijuana. We could be generous and make $100 cover up to a 1/4 pound (4 ounces). Commercial producers would be able to afford to pay a higher tax, into the $1000's of dollars.

Of course, with taxation, we also need regulation...


Peace,

Ghost

[Clio the Leo]

3. This is something my pot-growing TN neighbors should welcome...

..... it's our #1 cash crop you know?

[sui generis]

4. absolutely

it's also the first step to the adjoining states creating creating a patrolled interstate border: An economic and cultural secession.

I'm all for it no matter which direction everyone brains go when their tiny heads explode.

[Goldstein1984]

5. I'm guessing that one of the biggest opponents of legalizing

marijuana is the liquor industry.

How can you compete with a product that grows like a weed?

I know plenty of people who already use marijuana "recreationally" without regard to federal law. I have professional peers who choose to work for government agencies at half the pay they could make in the oil industry because they aren't subject to pre-hire and random drug testing.

[Odin2005]

11. YAY!!!