I wish our gov't was reasonable and about safety of the people, but it's all earmarks and bill riders.
So read below from NORML's site about legal medical cannabis in D.C.
They're collecting taxes and there's even a sliding scale for low income!
This is some bullshit, Tennessee- you hear me Jim Cooper? End this senseless prohibition of cannabis!
*Note: I have signed petitions to this effect to Rep. Cooper, emailed personally, and mentioned it during one of my phone calls to his office (you never get to actually talk to him, your message is dictated and passed along). He has emailed back to say he "hears" me- but says the rest of the state doesn't agree. BULLSHIT Let's put it to a vote, Jimmy!
District of Columbia
SUMMARY: D.C. Council Members enacted legislation in May 2010 authorizing the establishment of regulated medical marijuana dispensaries in the District of Columbia. On Monday, July 26, members of Congress allowed the measure to become law without federal interference.
The law amends the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative, a 1998 municipal ballot measure which garnered 69 percent of the vote yet was never implemented. Until 2010, D.C. city lawmakers had been barred from instituting the measure because of a Congressional ban on the issue. Congress finally lifted the ban in 2009.
Under the law, D.C. Health Department officials will oversee the creation of as many as eight facilities to dispense medical cannabis to authorized patients. Medical dispensaries would be limited to growing no more than 95 plants on site at any one time.
Both non-profit and for-profit organizations will be eligible to operate the dispensaries.
A separate provision enacted as part of the 2011 D.C. budget calls for the retail sales of medical cannabis to be subject to the District’s six percent sales tax rate. Low-income will be allowed to purchase medical marijuana at a greatly reduced cost under the plan.
It will likely be several months before Health officials establish a patient registry and/or begin accepting applications from the public to operate the City’s medical marijuana production and distribution centers.
The medical use provisions in the District of Columbia do not include reciprocity provisions protecting visitors from other medical use states.
