California Marijuana Ban Gets Legislative Review After 96 Years

[lib2DaBone]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2dVAWr7p7lk

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- California’s Assembly will consider lifting its 96-year-old ban on marijuana, decriminalizing the drug and taxing it like alcohol, as the state seeks ways out of its worst financial crisis since World War II.

The Assembly’s Public Safety Committee will discuss the social, fiscal and legal implications of legalizing and regulating marijuana in Sacramento today, said Quintin Mecke, a spokesman for Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

It would be the first time the issue has been considered by the Legislature since the ban on marijuana use went into effect in 1913, according to a statement from the San Francisco Democrat.

“It is time to take our heads out of the sand and start to regulate this $14 billion industry,” Ammiano said in the statement. “By doing so, we can enact smart public policy that will bring much-needed revenue into the state and improve public safety by utilizing our limited law enforcement resources more wisely. The move toward regulation is simply common sense.”

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Needed some good news today....

[tridim]

1. The same thing needs to be done at the Federal level.

[ixion]

2. indeed

it is decades overdue.

[Fumesucker]

3. 9.6 decades to be exact..

96 tears.. err. I mean years..

[tmyers09]

5. Too many teardrops for one heart to be cryin'.

[MagickMuffin]

4. There would also be additional revenue from everyone wanting to move there ;=D

Maybe my girlfriend would be more successful in getting me to move :rofl: