newer bigger strides in marijuana regulation

Today marked a significant milest
one for marijuana policy reform:
In California, legislation that w
ould remove penalties for adult m
arijuana use was approved by a ma
jor committee in the state legisl
ature.



This is the first time in U.S. hi
story that a bill to tax and regu
late marijuana ever made it to a
state legislative committee, and
it passed with a majority of the
vote!



After hearing testimony from advo
cates -- including MPP's Californ
ia policy director Aaron Smith --
the Assembly Public Safety Commi
ttee voted 4-3 in support of A.B.
390, the landmark legislation au
thored by Assemblymember Tom Ammi
ano (D-San Francisco). Visit http
://www.mpp.org/states/california/
information-about-ab-390.html to
learn more about the bill.



Unfortunately, legislative rules
and deadlines are preventing the
bill from progressing further, bu
t the groundbreaking success in t
he Public Safety Committee is a s
ignal that we're making big strid
es. For the first time, state law
makers were forced to seriously c
onsider replacing marijuana prohi
bition with legal regulation -- a
nd they said yes.

 

That's fuckin awesome. It's starting to look like we may actually see complete legalization in our lifetime:sifone:

 

In Pennsylvania there has been much talk of possible legalization of medical marijuana. There has also been much talk of lowering sentences for "non-violent offenders".
I think all of us here know who the primary "non-violent offenders" are.

It's been good for green lately.

 

lol... table games come first, then legal prostitution, then DOPE.. we have some time to kill...

 

I'm not very optimistic about the medical marijuana thing - pretty dreamy about the idea though. But the non-violent offenders thing is prolly gonna happen.

 

state is running out of money. they either want nice roads or take care of shoplifers in jail.. Taxpayers pay an average of about $32,000 per year to house a single state prison inmate, including an average of almost $4,500 in health care costs. The average inmate health care cost has raised significantly in the last four years. Where costs have increased significantly is among prisoners requiring intensive, long-term medical care.. In the last 10 yrs, inmate population went from 33k to 44k. yet housing hasnt changed. There are plans to ship violent offenders and those that receive little visits to other states..

 

This is ve
ry good ne
ws

 

lol @ format..

 

It looks funky, but it's legible, so fuck it:tongue:

 

hahaha guys

yes good news

 

i hope it doesnt become legal anytime soon here in taxachusetts, marijuana puts food in my stomach!

 

It would put a lot of honest, hard-working dealers out of work, but it still needs to be legal.......based on principle, alone.

 

legalization will not change the price.. ive been paying the same price for weed since I was 13..

 

It will if it gets taxed. Of course, you could still grow your own. lol

 

yep i would continue to grow my own..............look what has happened to tobacco over the years......

 

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But I mean it. Medical mj just passed in NJ yesterday, too.

 

Yup. Considering the tobacco companies would likely be in charge of manufacturing and distributing legal marijuana, they would probably put nicotine in their marijuana products.

 

Except not... They'll be able to grow feilds of it, not secretly in wearhouses or in south America or wherever they grow it.

They won't charge extra for the costs of illegaly shiping it around.

It won't go through different dealers who each bump up the price a little bit.

It will be grown in mass amounts in fields, shiped to some factory where machines roll perfect joints and put them in boxes, then it'll be sold at bars, gas stations and coffie shops. You could get a pack of danks, or mersh, and you would know you wernt getting ripped off. It would be cleaner, cheaper (even if they taxed the shit out of it) better weed.


I can't fuckin wait

 

i have to disagree about the cleaner, cheaper, better statement.........that is just not true, maybe cleaner, cheaper, better than the stuff you get from your local shady dealer...........but older dude down the street minding his business, paying taxes, blah blah blah...is growing something 10x better than what the gov't would be putting out GUARANTEED.

 

But it wouldn't be the govt putting it out. It would be independant companies, much like it is now. You can get schwag mids or dank now, and, most likely, it'll be exactly the same once it's legalized and regulated. Plus taxes. And yes, the farmer who's been cultivating since he was 20 will still be around and will still be turning out quality product, but most likely there's gonna be major investments by major companies to put out the highest quality pot they can sell.