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   From: #1@Bushy.net   
      
   SACRAMENTO - On Wednesday, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee   
   will hold a historic hearing on the implications of taxing and regulating   
   marijuana similarly to alcoholic beverages.   
      
   The informational hearing marks the first time California's legislature has   
   considered ending marijuana prohibition since California first banned   
   marijuana in 1913.   
      
   Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), chair of the committee, is author   
   of AB 390, the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act. A press   
   conference will precede the hearing.   
      
   The following people will speak at the press conference: Assemblyman Tom   
   Ammiano; Aaron Smith, Marijuana Policy Project; Stephen Gutwillig, Drug   
   Policy Alliance; and Dale Gieringer, California NORML.   
      
   Available to answer questions at the news conference and testifying at the   
   hearing will be: Terence Hallinan, former district attorney, City and County   
   of San Francisco; Dan Macallair, executive director, Center on Juvenile and   
   Criminal Justice; Jim Gray, retired judge, Orange County Superior Court;   
   Rev. Canon Mary Moreno-Richardson, Episcopal priest, Hispanic Ministries at   
   St. Paul's Cathedral, San Diego; Tamar Todd, staff attorney, Drug Policy   
   Alliance Network; Allen Hopper, counsel, American Civil Liberties Union.   
      
   The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. inside Room 126 at the State Capitol   
   in Sacramento. The 9 a.m. press conference will be held in Room 317.   
      
   http://cbs5.com/local/marijuana.legalization.hearing.2.1274296.html   
      
   Trouble is.....   
      
   Just like the Lotto and the Indian Casinos, whatever money is generated from   
   taxes on Pot will be blown on pet projects by CA's assembly and Gov Arnold   
   Reaganigger.   
      
   Deregulizing taxes for the ultra wealthy and the huge food cartels (Sunkist,   
   Calvado, etc.) is what's got California in this hole.   
      
   Electing another bonehead Hollywood actor got us nowhere.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)