State Powers, Regulations and Fair Taxation Are At The Heart of Legalizing Marijuana

July 14, 2017
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By Tom Lackey, Assemblyman (R-CA)

When I was first elected to the California State Legislature back in 2014, I too, admittedly, was skeptical about whether taxing and regulating cannabis could be effectively implemented.

As someone who spent 28 years in the California Highway Patrol, grew up in a small-town mining town in the Mojave Desert and have never had a sip of alcohol in my life, I am probably the last person you would ever expect to support cannabis reform.

However, shortly after being elected, I was approached by law enforcement to help craft a regulatory system for medical marijuana, which has been legal in California since 1996 but was completely unregulated for nearly 20 years after. [Read More at The Hill]

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