Advocates of legalizing marijuana are having a great week in California.
First, San Francisco's Tom Ammiano initiated a bill to legalize pot use in the state, and tax it at about "a buck a joint," one report claimed.
Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama's campaign promise to stop the raids is "now American policy."
San Francisco has about two dozen such clubs, and has often been targeted by the feds. The city recently passed legislation to regulate the businesses more effectively.
"Holder's declaration is a high point for the movement to legalize medical marijuana, which has been growing for decades despite federal hostility," a report in the Huffington Post stated.
And this line from their story is just to good to pass up: "Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper,"
Read the rest of the report for all you ever wanted to know, and a lot you probably didn't on the push to legalize marijuana.
News Hawk- Ganjarden 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: California Statehouse Examiner
Author: Scott Sabatini
Contact: California Statehouse Examiner
Copyright: 2009 California Statehouse Examiner
Website: Holder to Stop Raids on Medical Marijuana Clubs
First, San Francisco's Tom Ammiano initiated a bill to legalize pot use in the state, and tax it at about "a buck a joint," one report claimed.
Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama's campaign promise to stop the raids is "now American policy."
San Francisco has about two dozen such clubs, and has often been targeted by the feds. The city recently passed legislation to regulate the businesses more effectively.
"Holder's declaration is a high point for the movement to legalize medical marijuana, which has been growing for decades despite federal hostility," a report in the Huffington Post stated.
And this line from their story is just to good to pass up: "Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper,"
Read the rest of the report for all you ever wanted to know, and a lot you probably didn't on the push to legalize marijuana.
News Hawk- Ganjarden 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: California Statehouse Examiner
Author: Scott Sabatini
Contact: California Statehouse Examiner
Copyright: 2009 California Statehouse Examiner
Website: Holder to Stop Raids on Medical Marijuana Clubs
