Prop. 19 splits medical pot industry
By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee
The Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary has a truck driving around Sacramento with a sign telling people to vote “no” on the state ballot initiative that would legalize pot for recreational use.
George Mull, a lawyer for several Northern California pot shops, is fighting Proposition 19 on claims it threatens protections put in place for medical pot users with the 1996 passage of California’s medical marijuana law.
And a Humboldt County dispensary operator complains that the new pot measure simply isn’t needed. “They say they’re legalizing marijuana,” said Stephen Gasparas, who runs the iCenter pot dispensary in Arcata. “It’s already legal. All they’re doing is taxing it.”
California’s landmark initiative to legalize marijuana use for adults over 21 and permit local governments to tax retail pot sales is backed – and bankrolled – by leaders in California’s medical cannabis movement.
And then you got the cart before the horse – Grego and Lovell fighting to get rid of the dispenseries when all could change in Nov. Recall Grego for wasting our tax dollars on this issue, and Lovell go back to the casinos. The smoke evidently clouded your brain. You’ll feel more at home there. Idiots wasting city time and money who ought to be thrown out today!