Working to Protect Medical Marijuana Users in San Diego
by Don DuncanLast week, I spoke to the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force about their efforts to create sensible regulations for medical cannabis dispensing collectives and cooperatives in the city. The task force is charged with making recommendations to the City Council, which will use their input to craft an ordinance. Input from stakeholders early in the process is important, and San Diego ASA is working with allies to be sure patients’ voices help shape the city’s policy.
I spoke to the task force about the benefits of regulations, and cautioned them not to be misled by faulty legal analysis aimed at rolling back safe access.
Improving local regulations is a high priority for ASA’s California campaign. We must work diligently in cities and counties to be sure that local ordinances fulfill the voters’ mandate in Proposition 215 – “…To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.”
Working to Protect Medical Marijuana Users in San Diego
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Keep the drug dealing criminals away from our kids
Licensing, taxing, and regulating the distribution of marijuana is the surest way to put the criminal drug dealers out of business and protect our children from the money -hungry criminal element. It’s time to protect our children and take the marijuana business out of the hands of criminals. License, tax, and regulate the marijuana business. And while we’re at it, let’s implement a personal cultivation permit. Limit the size of the growing area or the number of plants, and put a small user-fee on it to cover administrative costs, something like a fishing license. Maybe high enough that there will be a little something left over for education or fixing the roads.
One possibility:$100 per year for a permit to cultivate a dozen plants.
It's a win-win.
- Concerned Parent
November 3, 2009 9:29AM
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Permit?
There are already guidelines set by the CA Attorney General about how much you can grow per patient. Counties can have their own guidelines as well.
User fee, though? Do you need a permit to grow tomatoes?
The "man" can get their monies by taxing dispensaries. This is a billion dollar industry that they would rather suppress and keep in the hands of the cartels, instead of embracing it and taxing it to help our economy .
- Will B Hardigan
November 3, 2009 11:39AM
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User fee will help get buy-in from the general public
Hi, Will-
You're right, there's no user fee to grow tomatoes. There's also no political resistance to allowing people to grow their own tomatoes. A user fee simply sweetens the deal for the non-growing public, helping them to see some benefit to permitting ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana for personal use. I don't think a user fee is the perfect solution; I think we would agree, however, that a nominal fee would be a big improvement over the current law .
- Concerned Parent
November 3, 2009 2:24PM
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