USA - California to legalize cannabis?!

[SWIM Bulgakov]

Legalize It: Ammiano to Introduce Legislation Monday to Allow Pot -- and Tax It

The story SF Weekly broke on Friday is true: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will announce legislation on Monday to legalize marijuana and earn perhaps $1 billion annually by taxing it.

Quintin Mecke, Ammiano's press secretary, confirmed to SF Weekly that the assemblyman's 10 a.m. Monday press conference regarding "new legislation related to the state's fiscal crisis" will broach the subject of reaping untold -- and much-needed -- wealth from the state's No. 1 cash crop.

Mecke said Ammiano's proposed bill "would remove all penalties in California law on cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, or use of marijuana, natural THC, or paraphernalia for persons over the age of 21."

The bill would additionally prohibit state and local law officials from enforcing federal marijuana laws. As for Step Two -- profit -- Ammiano's bill calls for "establishing a fee on the sale of marijuana at a rate of $50 per ounce." Mecke said that would bring in roughly $1 billion for the state, according to estimates made by marijuana advocacy organizations.


http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/...to_introdu.php

Is that for real?
Anybody wants to start a farm with me?

[cannabis-sam]

It still has to pass (not sure about the system in america)

This has been posted before and discussed.

[SWIM Bulgakov]

^ I wasn't aware.

Surely it won't pass. It's nice to daydream a bit though.

[cannabis-sam]

It's unlikely that's not to say it's not possible california seem to have one of the most liberal attitudes towards cannabis.

[SWIM Bulgakov]

I don't believe in Canabinator. But if it passes, I'm packing.
California is a beautiful place: nice climate, incredible nature a drive to Mexico...

with a 12V car-vap warming up from the cigarette lighter ....

daydreaming again

[cannabis-sam]

Don't forget all the huge cannabis plants the police constable could grow over there legally

[SWIM Bulgakov]

...gettin pulled over for driving to slow...
... smokin a spliff with the man in the uniform...
...gettin of with a bakin...
...at the border...
...showin Mexicans that gringos can grow...

[TestPattern]

Originally Posted by SWIM Bulgakov

...gettin pulled over for driving to slow...
... smokin a spliff with the man in the uniform...
...gettin of with a bakin...
...at the border...
...showin Mexicans that gringos can grow...

Well, IF this were to pass, DUI laws would definitely still make operating a motor vehicle while blazing or after blazing illegal.