Hearing On AB 390 Postponed!
| By OC NORML | Published March 25, 2009 |
Next week's scheduled hearing on Assembly Bill 390: The Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act, has been postponed. However, this is good news!
Members of the Committee on Public Safety and Health were anticipated to vote on AB 390 -- which seeks to tax and regulate the commercial production and sale of cannabis in California -- immediately following next week's hearing. While it is impossible to know how the Committee would have voted, all early indications were that several powerful members of the Committee were expected to oppose the bill.
However, we now have additional time to lobby the Public Safety Committee and the Assembly to support AB 390.
Let's use this time wisely to build upon the 4,000 e-mails that have already been sent to the members of the Assembly in favor of AB 390. Letters in support of this measure may be e-mailed to your state assemblyman by going here: http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=12758896
Contact information, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers for the members of the Committee, is available here. Please write and call them today!
Please tell them that AB 390 would:
* Restrict access to marijuana to those under age 21;
* Raise over $1 billion dollars in annual tax revenue;
* And improve public safety by redirecting law enforcement efforts to focus on more serious crimes.
For additional information on this effort, please contact California NORML. Thank you for supporting NORML's marijuana law reform efforts in California.
Sincerely,
The NORML Team
Visit our web site at www.OCNORML.org or call 1-877-OCNORM
