Signature gathering underway for medical marijuana initiative

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Signature gathering was underway for an initiative that would ban all privately owned medical marijuana cultivation sites and dispensaries and create a state-owned and operated medical marijuana cultivation site and dispensaries.

What authors Roger D. Morgan, Scott Chapman, Carla Lowe and the Rev. Ron Allen have dubbed “The California Safe and Drug-Free Community Act” would also allow local governments to ban or restrict the number and location of state-owned dispensaries, and establishes packaging, lab testing and potency standards for medical marijuana.

The initiative also sets 21 as the minimum age for medical marijuana use; requires adoption of strict standards to govern physician medical marijuana recommendations for their patients; and specifies marijuana blood- content levels that establish driving under the influence.

The initiative would retain the prohibition on recreational use of marijuana.

Passage of the initiative would result in an unknown change in state and local revenues related to sales...

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