CA Bill: 1 Year Max For Growing

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Ammiano bill to set 1 year jail max for pot growing

By "Radical" Russ Belville

(Sacramento Bee) Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced legislation to keep Californians convicted of illegal marijuana cultivation out of state prison.

Ammiano’s Assembly Bill 1017 seeks to set a maximum sentence of one year in county jail for people convicted of illegal cultivation. Current California law treats illegal pot growing as a felony allowing up to three years in state prison, with stiffer sentences if the cultivation is connected to illegal sales or trafficking.

The bill by the San Francisco Democrat is also intended to make it easier for authorities to charge non-medical pot cultivators with a misdemeanor instead of a felony, said Ammiano’s spokesman Quintin Mecke. “It will make everything a wobbler,” he said.

Mecke said Ammiano is considering revising the bill language to consider reduced penalties for marijuana sales and transportation.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/weed-wars/2...-cultivators-out-of-prison.html#ixzz1EjuqMlj3

California continues to nibble around the edges of outright legalization. It’s a good step to keep growers out of prison, but one year in a nicer cage is still wrong for growing house plants. The sooner we legalize cannabis the better so we don’t have to cut bargains on how long we should surrender our freedoms

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

I think he is better off just concentrating on legalization