Here’s what occurs if Californians legalize recreational pot

“Nearly 200 groups including veterans, doctors, patients, taxpayers, seniors and aids/HIV groups are opposed, along with every daily newspaper in the state”, Kathy Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the No on Prop 61 Coalition, said in an e-mail.

That being said, we have high hopes for marijuana, in terms of the tax revenue California will gain, decriminalization and increased access to a relatively cheap alternative medicine.

California’s Proposition 64 holds roughly 60 percent support and would allow anyone over 21 to possess one ounce of Marijuana and grow up to six plants in their home.

Arizona’s marijuana ballot initiative would place a 15 percent excise tax on marijuana and marijuana product sales.

New polling shows that despite a massive influx of money to the primary group opposing Proposition 205 to legalize cannabis in Arizona, a solid 50% of voters in the state say they’re in support of the measure.

Harrington says that marijuana has “enhanced” his life. In it Harrington describes the benefits he and his grandmother receive from using marijuana.

Some of the ads point out that children have been treated at Colorado emergency rooms at a rate of 2.3 per 100,000 for accidental ingestion of marijuana or edibles. But skilled farmers can usually coax three times that and sometimes more.

Among them are Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories, manufacturers of the opioid painkillers OxyContin and Vicodin.

Companies in the industry struggle to get approved to list on the major exchanges partly because marijuana is still illegal under federal law.

Let’s talk more about your opinion of alcohol versus cannabis. Sixty per cent of Californians suggested the drug should be legal compared to 34 per cent who opposed the idea, according to Ballotpedia’s average of polls.

It is time to legalize adult use and get rid of the felonies for growing and sharing a few plants. “Don’t believe the false promises, the same thing could happen in Arizona”. Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Aniston have revealed to Rolling Stone magazine that they use cannabis.

The voice behind one of the war on drugs’ most iconic ads has cast a vote to legalize marijuana.

Arizona isn’t the only state where voters will be asked to make a decision on legalizing marijuana.

— All taxes collected are placed in the California Marijuana Tax Fund, which the state Legislative Analyst estimated could reach $1 billion annually.

As California’s marijuana community (and the rest of the country) anxiously await November 8th, and what has quite possibly become our nation’s most divisive election yet, it’s almost our last chance to look closely at Prop 64 before deciding as a state if we’d like to enact it.

If the proposition fails, Blake argues, the state in general and Northern California in particular would be in danger of losing its position as the nation’s top-producing marijuana region.

“To roll out the adult use market, which literally banks on increased usage to generate the revenue that is expected and that is projected, I think that it’s putting the cart in front of the horse”, she said.