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Oakland Assemblyman Rob Bonta said Friday ushered a new chapter for the people of California.
“Consumers deserve to know they are getting safe products, and will receive the products they pay for”.
“The days of sucking the creeks dry, the days of mindless environmental destruction are over”, said Tim Blake, organizer of the Emerald Cup, an annual marijuana competition in Sonoma County.
Charles Webb, head of the association representing B.C.’s doctors, agreed that medical marijuana may well help with those conditions described by Dr. Kerr, but he said many physicians will remain reticent to prescribe it until Health Canada comes out with guidelines on dosage, concentration and best practices for administering the drug.
The move has been welcomed not only by marijuana advocates who have been vying hard for the regulation of marijuana in California, but also by wealthy technocrats who see a huge financial possibility if marijuana was to be legalized and regulated according to a set of new rules.
Governor Jerry Brown signed three bills today that will create regulation, licenses, and environmental standards.
The governor’s endorsement Friday of the legislative package hammered out by lawmakers was expected because his office crafted numerous details.
Numerous initiatives have already been filed in California to present voters with the option of legalizing recreational marijuana next year, so it is vital the state prepares to deal with increasing numbers of drugged drivers. And the industry has been unregulated during that time. “Voters passed Proposition 215 almost twenty years ago and the promised rules and regulations from the legislature were never advanced and our communities and environment have been paying the price ever since”.
Although bills are thought of as imperfect, the pot industry seems to be in agreement that state regulation is a step towards legitimization.
Assemblymember Ken Cooley (D-Rancho Cordova), applauded the unprecedented nature of the agreement.
The Apothecarium, a medical marijuana dispensary batch tests all their products in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 1, 2015.
Assemblymember Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Sr.
We believe marijuana is marijuana and the only difference between medical and recreational is the intent of the user.
We applaud Gov. Brown and the legislature for adopting a much-needed regulatory framework for the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana in California…
Assemblymember Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale), the only Republican author of AB 266, emphasized how the legislation improves public safety.
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“California has not had a statewide strategy for curbing drugged driving (DUID)”. Moskovitz’s current startup, workplace software company Asana, referred a reporter to Moscovitz’s philanthropic foundation, Good Ventures, which among many donations this year gave $150,000 in August to the Drug Policy Alliance, which works on issues that include marijuana law reform. “Yet, we have this 1960s, 1970s reefer madness mentality that somehow our public school system is going to collapse, capital investments will dry up and all sorts of parades of horrors will happen if we allow medicine to be put in the hands of the people who need it. To me that’s just not persuasive”.
