State bill will make medical cannabis devices legal
March 17th, 2010Posted by Don Duncan
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California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that will exempt supplies used to grow or ingest medical cannabis from the state’s drug paraphernalia laws. These supplies are currently sold to medical cannabis patients under the pretense that they are being used to grow other plants or for smoking tobacco. The bill would exempt testing supplies, grow equipment, pipes, bongs, vaporizers, and more – so long as they are used for legal medical purposes. Amminao’s AB 1811 would let vendors, legal patients, and primary caregivers openly discuss the proper use of the supplies without fear of prosecution under the antiquated paraphernalia laws.
This is a common sense improvement is state law. Legal medical cannabis patients and merchants who sell accessory products to them should not have to play games in grows stores, smoke shops, and other retail outlets. AB 1811 lets them behave like other ordinary buyers and sellers in the marketplace. Let’s hope that Assemblymember Ammiano’s colleagues support this easy fix to state law when his bill is heard before the Assembly Public Safety Committee in Sacramento on March 23.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
We need to start fighting for collectives and cooperatives to make a profit. Why can’t they make a profit? Pharmacies make a profit, beer company’s and tobacco company’s make a profit, and there killing thousands of people a year. Its a business, like a pharmacy. They sell hard drugs every day, that are abused by patients and there families. Dispensaries can give jobs to people who need them. Pay taxes to help California. Its also a business.
March 29th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
every time I go to the hydro store we talk tomatoes. When I buy a bong I call it a beaker.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:08 pm
are you that nieve to think they don’t?!?
May 8th, 2010 at 2:28 am
Carolyn: No, most dispensaries are not making huge profits.
Dino: I agree, hopefully this means you are ready to vote in November check out tax cannabis .org for more information. (California Residents Only)