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UPDATE: Medical marijuana hearing in Assembly Public Safety
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Last week, I emailed to let you know that your assemblymember, who sits on the Public Safety Committee, would be considering two contrasting pieces of marijuana legislation. That hearing was moved back to tomorrow, April 17. If you have not done so already, please take a moment to email your assemblymember in support of explicit legal protections and regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries and in opposition to making medical marijuana identification cards mandatory.
AB 2312 — introduced by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano — would create the Board of Medical Marijuana Enforcement to oversee the medical marijuana industry in California. This bill is an important step forward to provide clear legal protections for dispensaries and cultivators and to make it harder for localities to ban collectives and cooperatives. Please ask your assemblymember to support this sensible proposal.
The same committee will be hearing testimony on a bill introduced by Assemblymember Nora Campos — AB 2465 — that would make obtaining medical marijuana cards mandatory for all patients and caregivers across California. Please ask your assemblymember to oppose this obtrusive proposal.
Thanks for voicing your concerns! Please pass this along to others in your neighborhood so they too can stand up for patient rights.
