there is no regulations on growing blackberries or any of the aforementioned plants. I checked. Not even if you plan to distribute them for profit. The only taxes that would be paid is on GAINS!
My uncle owns a large strawberry farm. He does indeed need permits and the health inspector does visit to make sure he is complying with health code regulations. Not sure where you're getting your info from but if you sell food commercially, there are regulations.
The only permits necessary, are normal business operating permits, nothing like what AB 390 is proposing. Otherwise the amendments wouldn't be made specifically for pot, and cannabis would simply be declared legal. The bill is reckless and wasteful.
The permit system in AB390 and Tax and Regulate Cannabis 2010 are virtually identical as far as I can tell. Even the permit costs are the same I believe.
I'm not at all apposed to AB390. It's just not likely to pass a floor vote.
Doesn't take anything away but the ability of small businesses to capitalize on the market, or even grow a quality product at an affordable cost, as apposed to the corporate interests that are ready to usurp the small businesses.
What in Tax and Regulate usurps small businesses?
Now FTD and similar corporate interests rule the floral industry, fucking over the growers (which moved out of country, whence before growing was much more common here), and fucking over the small businesses they claim to be helping.... lol, helping themselves to the small businesses clientel!
From AB390:
25401. (a) The department shall license commercial cultivators of
marijuana. The fee for the license shall be set at an amount that
will reasonably cover to costs of assuring compliance with the
regulations to be issued, but may not exceed five thousand dollars
($5,000) for an initial application, or two thousand five hundred
dollars ($2,500) per year for each annual renewal.
If you think AB390 doesn't heavily regulate and require expensive permits, you need to read it again.
Taxation and regulation is NOT legalization, it is further decriminalization.
If you think AB390 provides ANY more legalization than Tax and Regulate than please quote the bill. You're still speaking in generalizations.
I still don't think you have read the bill.
I've read AB390 and Tax and Regulate. The wording in both is virtually the same. AB390 is slightly more specific, but they are almost identical. If you dispute this than show me specific facts instead of speaking in generalizations and assumptions.
Criminal penalties would still be applicable and practiced (cant release all those prisoners and crumble our inflated prison industry now can we?). It says it right in the bill.
If that's true it should be easy to show me.
Medicinal growers would still be required to acquire permits to grow, and fall within whatever regulations are determined to be put into place......
Your doctors recommendation is your permit, just like now. I don't see what freedom is being taken away.
For some reason you are all still under the impression that Democracy and Monetary Capitalism are synonymous.
I've never said anything of the sort nor given any indication that I believe this. Please do not put words that I've never said in my mouth.
but that is a Side of economics I doubt very many have learned about or taken the time to really understand.
That is unnecessarily condescending. Get off your soap box.
Obviously, this bill is about a hell of a lot more than just pot. Pot is the Hype there to grab you, to get you to follow and support. NORML is a for profit, so is OU.....
No shit. But guess what? We don't live in your libertarian utopia fantasy world. We live in the real world where money talks.
Legalization isn't going to happen without money behind it. That's how our government works. Very few things happen in this country because it's "the right thing to do". Things usually happen here because there is a financial incentive. Right now the financial incentive for making cannabis legal is becoming stronger than the financial incentives for keeping it illegal.
To think cannabis is going to become legal for any other reason than for people to profit off of it is naive and foolish.
