Recently webcast at FORA.tv, this panel hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco presented an opportunity to get the varied opinions on Marijuana/Cannabis Economics. The event was held July 30, 2009 and included speakers: Scott Kirkland - Chief of Police, El Cerrito; Richard Lee - Co-founder of the Hemp Research Company; Josh Richman - state and federal politic journalist; and Eugene Schoenfeld - practicing psychopharmacologist.
Marijuana is by some estimates California's largest cash crop, bringing in more than twice the revenue of vegetables, yet we don't tax this green. Legalizing and taxing pot could provide $1.3 billion to help our hemorrhaging economy, but it might also lead to additional problems and undermine anti-drug efforts. Is this crop just cash waiting to be reaped, or is it more complicated? Come hear advocates on both sides argue the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana.
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As one of CRRH's Cannabis Tax Acts (CTA), OCTA would comprehensively reform marijuana laws by regulating and taxing adult sales; licensing the cultivation of the drug for sale in adult-only businesses; allowing adults to grow their own and farmers to grow industrial hemp without license; and letting doctors prescribe untaxed cannabis to patients suffering from a variety of illnesses and injuries.
OCTA was carefully crafted over a period of years, with the input of dozens of people. The first third of the text, or Preamble, is a finding by the people, giving the reasons we are breaking from federal drug scheduling.
FBI director Robert Mueller says marijuana should not be legalized while admitting no adult has been killed by the drug.
You have never before seen — nor will you ever see again — FBI director Robert Mueller so thoroughly humbled in a discussion about drug policy before the United States Congress.
In this instance, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) gets Mueller to admit that marijuana has never killed anybody, then smashes into tiny bits the decades-old “gateway drug” argument with a unique analogy of milk and bourbon.
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