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JackTheGrower

Oh my my Ab390 will be voted on soon!


Well we can do what we like we are not tied to TC2010!

http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=12758896

NORML is asking for your support of Assembly Bill 390, the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act -- the first bill ever introduced to legalize the sale and use of marijuana in California.

The Public Safety Committee will be voting on the bill on January 12, 2010. If the bill passes the vote in Public Safety, it will then be heard and voted on by the Health Committee that very same day. It is important to let the representatives on each of these committees know that Californian's like you support AB 390. To view the current members serving on each committee click here for Public Safety and here for Health.

As introduced, this groundbreaking proposal would raise over $1 billion in annual revenue by taxing the retail production and sale of marijuana for adults over 21 years of age.

The bill would not alter existing legislation on the use of medicinal cannabis, nor would it impose new taxes or sanctions on the medical cultivation of cannabis.

Assembly Bill 390 proposes to make California the first state in the nation to enact a rational public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana. Please show your support for this measure by contacting your California Assembly members and urging them to support the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act. For your convenience, a pre-written letter will be e-mailed to your state elected officials when you enter your contact information below.

For more information about this measure, please visit: http://www.canorml.org. You can also check the status of this bill here.

Thank you for supporting NORML's marijuana law reform efforts in California.
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vta

vta

Active member
Veteran
It is important to let the representatives on each of these committees know that Californian's like you support AB 390.
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That's right! Cause you know the Feds will be pleading their case to them as well.

Spend a min and send an email or make a call to voice your support.
 
richyrich

richyrich

Out of the slime, finally.
Veteran
Now we will see where the politicians stand on this if it makes it out of Committee.
 
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JackTheGrower

California and Washington?

California and Washington?

Here is more news on AB390 and Washington's HB2401

Please see link for full story.

West Coast Weed Wars: Legalizing Legislators Come Out Swinging
Two leading advocates of marijuana legalization at the statehouse came out swinging during a Thursday press conference to push the issue forward. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), author of AB 390, the California legalization bill, and Rep. Roger Goodman (D-Kirkland), cosponsor of HB 2401, the Washington state legalization bill, both said the time to legalize marijuana has come.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/files/sacramentohearing1.jpg
Ammiano press conference for AB 390
"We're very excited, we've gained a lot of traction, and the political will seems to be there," said Ammiano, whose bill has already had one committee hearing and heads for an Assembly Public Safety Committee vote next month. "There also seems to be a populist dimension, as evidenced by the legalization initiative, which has qualified for the ballot."

Ammiano was referring to the Tax and Regulate Cannabis 2010 initiative sponsored by Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee, which formally announced this week that it had secured sufficient signatures to make the November 2010 ballot. (The Chronicle reported on that story two weeks ago.

"My bill would generate much needed revenue for the state," Ammiano continued. "We are in an historic economic and fiscal crisis, and taxing marijuana is just common sense."

But, Ammiano added, it isn't all about the dollars. "This is not just about the revenue," he said, "this is a social justice issue. People of color, specifically African-Americans, are being disproportionately arrested," the San Francisco assemblyman charged.
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ChronJohn

Member
I'm still trying to figure out if this line means that AB390 wouldn't help until Federal law changes:

"It would set up a wholesale and retail marijuana sales regulation program, including special fees to fund drug abuse prevention programs, as specified, to commence after regulations concerning the program have been issued, and federal law permits possession and sale consistent with the program."
 
Koroz

Koroz

Member
I haven't read it in a long time, but from what I remember off the top of my head, it is allowing the personal possession and cultivation, but the state sales and wholesales licences wouldn't take effect until after Federal law changes.

Basically it is a starting point from what I gathered that would stop putting people in jail, and allow them to grow on their own until the climate changes more and the feds can let us make money off it with out risk of raids from the dea.
 
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JackTheGrower

So how hard should we fight for ab390 do you think?

I need to look again but it doesn't stop us from breeding plants proper does it?
 
Koroz

Koroz

Member
JackTheGrower said:
So how hard should we fight for ab390 do you think?

I need to look again but it doesn't stop us from breeding plants proper does it?
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Ill try and read it over when I have time in the next couple of days. As far as I remember it had artificial limits in place just as the others have, and didn't allow a cap on tax placed upon cannabis.

But as I said, it has been almost a year or so since I read it, I will have to sit down when I have time and go line by line.
 
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JackTheGrower

Koroz said:
Ill try and read it over when I have time in the next couple of days. As far as I remember it had artificial limits in place just as the others have, and didn't allow a cap on tax placed upon cannabis.

But as I said, it has been almost a year or so since I read it, I will have to sit down when I have time and go line by line.
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I looked at it a little.. Was a long day at the keyboard so I was barely glancing it over late last night. I'll look again.

If a smart group is willing to make the trek to 2012 we can use all this momentum to get the rules we want for the cannabis game.

It is a game now.

Look at all the players too.. If John and Mary Q. Public think it's about people who just want to get high Gawd help America.

I'll check back to see what you come up with as well..
 
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JackTheGrower

Bongs will be legal to buy as Cannabis bongs.. I think I see in there.

I'm not seeing limits.. Anyone see that?
 
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JackTheGrower

Information about A.B. 390

A.B. 390, California's Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act:

* Removes criminal penalties for personal marijuana possession and cultivation for adults over the age of 21. Adults 21 and up could use marijuana at home or at a home with the consent of a resident 21 years of age or older. Using marijuana in public would be a $100 fine.
* Allows persons 21 or older to grow up to 10 mature plants. If a garden is outdoors, it couldn't be visible to the public.
* Make possession and sales of marijuana paraphernalia legal for adults 21 and up.
* Allows cultivation of industrial hemp.
* Bans local agencies from willfully assisting federal law enforcement efforts to enforce federal laws that are inconsistent with California law, and bans the use of state/local resources to do so.
* Does not remove penalties for marijuana possession or sales on high school or lower schools' grounds.
* Does not affect the rights of employers to drug test and terminate or deny employment to individuals based on their marijuana use.
* Institutes a regulatory system for commercial growers, processors, wholesalers, and retailers, to go in effect 30 days after a change in federal law allowing states to set their own marijuana policies. The system would be similar to alcohol regulation and a fee of $50 per ounce of marijuana would be assessed on retailers.

For the entire text of the A.B. 390, See above already posted.

No Jobs..

So do we go with 10 plants and no rights to a job or do we go with 5x5 and have jobs?

I like Jobs
 
Hazelnuts

Hazelnuts

Member
I really wonder why no one seems to be able to put out a decent fucking legalization bill... They all have to be crippled in some way that eliminates some core benefit/issue of legalization... Oaksterdam has the retarded 5x5/ 1 oz per person limits, AB390 has a 10 plant limit and $100 fine for smoking in public (what the fuck, seriously). That's not legalization, friends, that's a bullshit form of decriminalization that's being sold to us as legalization. Fucking bullshit, I tell you.
 
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JackTheGrower

I think you can keep all you grow with taxC2010 and ab allows 10 plants

But it is a choice isn't it.. Each reality is weird to say the least.

No one is going to follow stupid rules that is a truth right there.

But a Job now that one AB390 is purported to allow one to still be fired I read.

So when it comes to that level of choice I guess tc wins..

Am I wrong? This is like running between two hungry cats. It Sucks when you are the mouse.

Are we ready to mobilize for 2012 yet?
 
Pythagllio

Pythagllio

Patient Grower
Veteran
The only bullshit here is the thought that you're going to get anything through without making some compromises. This is 70 years of propaganda we've got to overcome. It's not going to happen in a couple of days.

WTF is wrong with no smoking in public anyway? Fucking read the comments in the major news media when stories like this come up, there are a significant number from people with concerns about the smell and the 'threat' of second hand smoke.

WTF is wrong with a limit on the amount allowed for personal grows? All you need is to pay attention to what people are saying, and a major concern is out of control growers. Like it or not, these things will cause people to vote against us.

No one can put out a 'decent' legalization bill in your eyes because your demands are extreme, and don't have the proverbial snowball's chance of passing.
 
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JackTheGrower

I'm with ya.. I think we will have to do "clean up" in 2012.. I just pray that we have the balls to "get up stand up.."

I'm thinking given the choice of AB or TC that TC seems to protect our employment.

Anyone else get that from TC text?
 
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