I voted against declaring a fiscal emergency last night that would be linked to putting a tax on medical marijuana because I have consistently raised questions about how we can tax something that should not be sold. Medical marijuana collectives are supposed to be non-profit and are not supposed to be selling.
Moreoever, how is it that if we consider this to be medicine, we are taxing it? We don't tax other medicine.
I did vote to tax recreational marijuana -- however, I don't believe Prop 19 will pass.
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