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California State Assembly PSC Passes Measure to Legalize Marijuana

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The State of California Public Safety Committee narrowly passes the bill to legalize marijuana similar to cigarettes and alcohol. 

This bill is bad for everyone, it would allow anyone to smoke the marijuana just like cigarettes and the cash-strapped State of California legislator are digging themselves deeper and deeper by trying to justify the means to make it legal so they can tax themselves out of debt.

We say, “stop smoking it”!  It appears that the State legislator is smoking it while in session because the bill is filled with bad language that will cause law enforcement more grief.

“Don’t we have enough trouble with legal drugs and mind-altering substances, as well as the health and public safety impacts of alcohol and tobacco?” Susan Manheimer from the San Mateo Police Chief or CA Police Chiefs Association said.

“It legitimizes the quest for debate, the quest for for discussion. There was a time when the ‘M-word’ would never have been brought up in Sacramento,” Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, said.

Governor Schwarzenegger stands by the current law allowing those with a medical purpose to have it, but does not support this bill.

“It’s far better for the Legislature to get ahead of it and respond to voter concerns, but be able to do so if there’s flaws, we can adjust it,” Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said.

The  NRLEA does not support this bill and advises California law enforcement to stand together against this terrible bill.