Taxing Marijuana
The News Review:
- Taxing Marijuana
- 2 arrested in Sonoma County marijuana farm bust
- And they’re off: The race to legalize in CA is on
- Impaired driving and marijuana: part I
Taxing Marijuana
Huffington Post
While the concept of taxing marijuana is a new one for most people to consider it actually has a long history. The very first federal law dealing with (pun intended) marijuana was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Earlier laws outlawing “narcotics” had left out marijuana (or in the spelling more common at the time “marihuana”) so this was a more specific law dealing only with cannabis (and hemp). It ostensibly levied a tax on marijuana which was widely used in medical products of the day. The tax was pretty low (the base rate for a doctor was one dollar for.
2 arrested in Sonoma County marijuana farm bust
San Jose Mercury News
—Two men are under arrest after authorities raided a Sonoma County marijuana farm with about 5000 mature pot plants. Sheriff’s officials estimate the marijuana plants plus 30 pounds of processed pot had a street value of $5. Deputies also found a loaded Remington 600.
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And they’re off: The race to legalize in CA is on
Examiner.com
The Cannabis Act of 2010 is the third attempt to legalize marijuana recreationally in California which leaves to question how having three different efforts will impact the outcome. After all at least two initiatives will not only be competing to win over the voters but they all now have compete with each other and risk separating voter approval. The Cannabis Act would allow anyone 21 and over to possess up to one ounce of the green magic herb. People would also be protected when growing the plants on a 25 square foot area. Stephen Gutwillig director of the.
Impaired driving and marijuana: part I
Examiner.com
“Surveys that established recent use of cannabis by directly measuring THC in blood showed that THC positives particularly at higher dose rates are about 3 to 7 times more likely to be responsible for their crash as compared to drivers that had not used drugs or alcohol. ” [ 1 ]Granted you’ll not find anything like the above concept in the comments section of my column – in fact those who leave comments claim it’s just the opposite. f course they’re users trying to tell you that they’re fine to drive … and they’ll refer to “studies” proving just the opposite of what is only common sense that using marijuana doesn’t impair drivers … so where’s the truth?Realize:that there are studies that show users as driving acceptably … most of these are issues in experimental situations and are the non-complex issues of drivingany that seem competent users were almost assuredly high on ‘government pot’.