It appears the result of the Americans for Safe Access lobby at the capital was to double the sin tax a county can charge patients from 2.5% to 5% and to remove the requirement for a vote of the people in order to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in jurisdictions of over 50,000.
Dennis Peron, Richard Eastman, Leland Cole, and David Malmo-Levine declare that taxes on medical marijuana violate both the spirit and the letter of Proposition 215, The Compassionate Use Act of 1996.
“In fact, Proposition 19 appears to be capable of undoing all the work those promoting medical marijuana have done to enable patients to receive their medication without suffering consequences under California’s criminal laws.”