The Office of the California Attorney General released the official title and summary of the Jack Herer California Cannabis Hemp Initiative Wednesday. The proponent has until 19 Apr 10 to gather 433,971 valid signatures to qualify for the November 2010 ballot.
Three other initiatives are currently gathering signatures and the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 has announced they have at least 500,000 signatures and are confident they will have enough to qualify.
The official title is "Changes California Law to Legalize Marijuana and Release Non-Violent Marijuana Offenders from Jail." Thus, it will be easy to differentiate from the other three as it is the only one that does not contain the word "tax" as well as the only one to contain the word "jail".
The official summary is as follows:
Repeals state laws that make it a crime to possess, cultivate, transport, distribute, or use marijuana or hemp. Provides persons convicted or serving time for non-violent marijuana offenses be immediately released from prison, jail, parole, or probation, and have their convictions erased. Authorizes Legislature to adopt laws to license and tax commercial marijuana sales. Allows doctors to prescribe or recommend marijuana to patients, regardless of age. Prohibits testing for marijuana for employment or insurance purposes. Bars state from aiding enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Savings in the several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments on the costs of incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders. Unknown but potentially major tax and fee revenues to state and local government related to the production and sale of marijuana products. (09-0044.)
http://www.examiner.com/x-14883-Santa-Cruz-County-Drug-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d18-The-Jack-Herer-initiative-to-legalize-marijuana-receives-official-title-and-summary
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Why are we still having this conversation?
Nearly three-quarters-of-a-century after it was made illegal; half-a-century after it was proven to be practically harmless – why is it still a crime to possess and smoke marijuana?
Here is a list of ten famous people who died as a result of nicotine abuse:
Humphrey Bogart
Edward R. Murrow
Nat King Cole
George Harrison
John Huston
Noel Coward
Betty Grable
Walt Disney
Gary Cooper
Peter Jennings
Here is another list. Ten famous people who died from alcoholism:
Billie Holiday
Jack Kerouac
Truman Capote
Lorenz Hart
Veronica Lake
Bix Beiderbecke
Montgomery Clift
Dylan Thomas
John Barrymore
Errol Flynn
Now I’m going to ask you to name for me one celebrity who has died from too much grass.
Go on, I’m waiting. Is it a “gateway drug” as they never tire of reminding us? Yeah, it probably is. But so is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Let’s get a grip here.
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Marijuana helps my cronic back pain. I was diagnosised with stenosis of the lower spin. My lower spin is narrowing with 2 bulging discs. I am in pain every day and marijuana helps with the every day pain and I am only 46.
I wish them the very best on this and hope that this will open the way to more states following suit… At 14 I was diagnosed with sever manic depression what appeared to be minor schizophrenic episodes (later classified as Bi-Polar disorder) within the next two years had been on over 16 different anti depressants and anti psychotics after that I started self medicating and have had great success, However this has come at a great cost I lost my job over this and was turned in to the state, ordered to do a rehab in which I was stripped of self medicating and as a result have had suicidal episodes as well as the inability to sleep, I sleep maybe two hours a night and only with a sleep aid. Yes its true I had used on a daily basis for over 8 yrs so it has been suggested that this is mere withdraw symptoms however I never once had problems sleeping or even suicidal thoughts much less tendencies I have had while enduring this imposed sentence which has the potential to be a death sentence…How many people out there have to suffer its bad enough we have to turn to the streets and unknown connections to obtain or risk major imprisonment for growing our own that now we cant even work at a gas station or fast food joint without being able to pass at the very least random drug tests. Now I can certainly understand not being stoned while at work or driving a car but what you have to do in your home to cope with the inflictions which make up some of our lives should be our business and free right…Brightest Blessings and Good Luck
If any state will legalize, California will be the first. They were the first state to pass medical marijuana laws, setting the trend for the other states. Tylenol kills more people in a week than Cannibis will in this or any century, millennium.