L.A. County Ballot Measure Would Tax Marijuana to Pay for Homeless Services
Los Angeles County voters will be asked to up the price of marijuana in November to pay for shelter and health services for the county’s growing homeless population.
Los Angeles County voters will be asked to up the price of marijuana in November to pay for shelter and health services for the county’s growing homeless population.
Many cops and growers believe Prop. 64, backed by millions of dollars from Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, is a rich man’s hammer to smash open California’s fragmented cannabis industry for global conglomerates to flood the state with marijuana.
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It's official: an initiative legalizing recreational use of marijuana will appear on the California ballot in November.
The great California cannabis freeze has begun to thaw.
Editor’s note: As California navigates the transition to a regulated cannabis industry, several cities and counties stand out as best-practice examples.
Beset by budget issues, Desert Hot Springs has jumped ahead on Marijuana cultivation and may be a new boom town, so sayeth the LA Times.
It’s not everyday you see state bureaucrats run circles around their colleagues in California’s counties and cities. But that’s what’s happened in the arena of medical marijuana.