SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Legislature formally proclaimed Assembly Bill 390 "dead on arrival" today as lawmakers rejected an 11th hour plan to save it from demise. Opponents of the measure hail the news as a resounding victory for the people of California.
"Tom Ammiano is trying to spin his committee's endorsement of the bill as a major breakthrough that will lead to a national legalization movement; yet his own colleagues in the Legislature are unwilling to take it any further than the seven-member Public Safety Committee," said an elated John Redman, executive director of Californians for Drug Free Youth (CADFY). "In deciding not to advance this measure, the California Legislature recognized that AB 390 was bad public policy. And, in spite of the four Bay Area legislators who voted for its passage in committee, the majority of lawmakers didn't even think the bill was worth taking up in subsequent committees or the Assembly floor."
Procedurally, the Assembly Health Committee had to act on AB 390 by today, January 15, 2010, to keep it alive. Since members chose to miss that deadline, AB 390 will not reach the Assembly floor, effectively killing it.
"This victory is really for the children growing up in California's neighborhoods," said Bishop Ron Allen, founder and president of the International Faith Based Coalition, who admits to being led down a destructive path of cocaine addiction that started with marijuana. "Our grassroots efforts paid off in reaching California voters to support our dream that our communities become free of drugs and are made safer for our kids."
"I nearly lost everything - my home, my family and my reputation - as a result of taking that first puff of pot, and I have lived to regret it every day," said Allen, who resides in drug-infested Oak Park, Sacramento. "We've made it our mission to stamp out this destructive drug once and for all, and we will not relent until our work is finished."
As a recognized public safety expert and retired veteran CHP officer and assistant chief, Assemblymember Danny Gilmore (R-Hanford) voted against the bill. "We're going to legalize marijuana and tax it and then use that money to educate our kids about the harms of drugs? You got to be kidding me!"
Added Redman, "Plain and simple, taxing marijuana is blood money. I think the Legislature came to its senses in realizing how ridiculous it would be to turn to drugs to balance the budget. There are legitimate ways to get our economy moving again, and this is not one of them."
Friday, January 15, 2010
Bill to Legalize Marijuana is Up In Smoke!
Defeat is always the prelude to ultimate victory...or something like that.
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Absolutley rediculous. Oh the children, the children. This has nothing to do with the children. This is about legalizing a drug for ADULTS ONLY. I hope these people are fired and replaced with those who understand what the real issue is here. It is nothing but refer madness.
what these lawmakers tend to forget is that marijuana is not a harmful drug. it's a plant. people have been using it for centuries and no one has ever died from it. ever.
people have died from legal substances such as tobacco and alcohol though. a LOT of people. and somehow those substances are still legal, and still more harmful than marijuana.
These lawmakers make me sick with all of their excuses they need to let the people vote not a couple of old people about 90 percent of people i know smoke, its a huge market with lots of jobs that it can create, blood money it is not now tobacco and alcohol that kills many people everyday now thats blood money, thats ok cause we will eventually win.
I just hate how people use the argument that pot is a gateway drug. If you look at recent studies it shows that most children or teens who smoke pot started out with alcohol or tabacco. This makes you wonder which is the gateway drug?
stupid goverment , 40 millon + people in jail for simple mj charges who cannot pay taxes no wonder this country is in debt . stupid goverment , oh well your just screwing your self in the a** goverment. whats worse is how many lives you rape on your ( death drugs ) thanks goverment . !!!!
it's only a matter of time...we're talking about the number 1 cash crop for the US and over 50% of that cash crop comes from california. lets stop wasting resources on enforcing prohibition. not to mention legalizing it here will be cutting off the mexican drug cartel at its knees. Open your minds and get educated, reefer madness is dead and gone.
"We're going to legalize marijuana and tax it and then use that money to educate our kids about the harms of drugs? You got to be kidding me!"
Apparently Ass. Gilmore is unfamiliar with the way anti-smoking campaigns are funded. It saddens me when a politician acts as if something commonplace (and uncontroversial) is an absurdity, and the media lets him get away with it.
There is a new legal smoke on retail shelves now, much better than any other "legal bud". Actually has same effect as marijuanna. I have tried it several times and have not used anything else since...
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