A.B. 390-learn yourself some knowledge!

If you are into current events at all you should know about A.B. 390. Yea its nice to be lazy and keep your mind away from the news monster but sometimes you can really find some good in the world. Heres a perfect example with A.B. 390 California's Marijuana Control, Regulation, Education Act.

There is some real hope with this, these are the facts according to the Marijuana Policy Project:

• "Removes criminal penalties for personal marijuana possession and cultivation for adults over the age of 21. Adults 21 and up could use marijuana at home or at a home with the consent of a resident 21 years of age or older. Using marijuana in public would be a $100 fine."
  
• "Allows persons 21 or older to grow up to six mature plants. If a garden is outdoors, it couldn't be visible to the public."
  
• "Makes possession and sales of marijuana paraphernalia legal for adults 21 and up."
  
• "Allows cultivation of industrial hemp."
  
• "Bans local agencies from willfully assisting federal law enforcement efforts to enforce federal laws that are inconsistent with California law, and bans the use of state/local resources to do so."
  
• "Does not remove penalties for marijuana possession or sales on high school or lower schools' grounds."
  
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  "Does not change existing law protecting medical marijuana patients, nor does it impose additional taxes on marijuana obtained for medical purposes."
  
  
  
• "Does not affect the rights of employers to drug test and terminate or deny employment to individuals based on their marijuana use."
  
• "Institutes a regulatory system for commercial growers, processors, wholesalers, and retailers, to go in effect 30 days after a change in federal law allowing states to set their own marijuana policies. The system would be similar to alcohol regulation and a fee of $50 per ounce of marijuana would be assessed on retailers."

Buddha willing the dream will soon be alive. 

Because I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "Smoke weed everyday." As the great Dr. once said, Dr. Dre that is. All jokes aside we do need to look into this as a community, this is a stepping stone past a level of oppression.

 LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD.

To view the text of A.B. 390 in its entirety click here.