Well here we go again. Veterans of the Prop 19 campaign to legalize marijuana and hemp in California are now starting the process of drafting a bill to legalize hemp and marijuana and are working to get it on the ballot in 2012.
California State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) noted, in a Berkeley meeting on Saturday, that he introduced a bill last week to prevent employers from firing most medical marijuana patients who test positive for the drug and pledged to reintroduce a bill to allow California farmers to grow industrial hemp. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) said that he would try again to move his bill to legalize marijuana sales, but that he was also considering a piecemeal approach.
Momentum is building already and the election is a bit less than two years away. Prop 19 lost 46% to 54% last November. Maybe 2012 will be the year we finally get some common sense legislation about industrial hemp passed in California. Maybe even on a federal level but I have yet to see any movement on the topic at all on the federal level.
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