More Important Ground Breaking Legislation: California, for Michigan Residents to forward to Governor Grandholm

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I was reading an interesting article today concerning new legislation being proposed in California. I sent a letter to our Governor Jennfier Grandholm with the contents of the article because it made a lot of sense. The article contents were included in the e-mail (shown below) that I sent to the Governor via her website today. There is a link at www.michigan.gov/governor to contact her, its located near the center of the screen above her picture. If you click there it will allow you to click another link near the bottom that says " Share your opinion " . Copying and pasting the below text with my permission into the body of the response, and filling in the appropriate information on your own part, send and you can help end the ridiculous prohibition of Marijuana.

 Letter: 

Subject:  Michigan's Financial Position,and Potential Income 

Position: For

I wanted to take a moment to forward some information I just read. I'm a person without a lot of money, and see the billions of it our State could use from tax revenue collecting on legalized sale of Marihuana in addition to the MMMA of 2009 passed just this January.  The following text is from blogs.SFweekly.com 

reporting on California's newest introduction of legislation to legalize and tax Marijuana sales in the State of California :

 

""Legalize It: Ammiano to Introduce Legislation Monday to Allow Pot -- and Tax It

By Joe Eskenazi in Breaking News, GovernmentSunday, Feb. 22 2009 @ 5:00PM

The story SF Weekly broke on Friday is true: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will announce legislation on Monday to legalize marijuana and earn perhaps $1 billion annually by taxing it.

Quintin Mecke, Ammiano's press secretary, confirmed to SF Weekly that the assemblyman's 10 a.m. Monday press conference regarding "new legislation related to the state's fiscal crisis" will broach the subject of reaping untold -- and much-needed -- wealth from the state's No. 1 cash crop.

Mecke said Ammiano's proposed bill "would remove all penalties in California law on cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, or use of marijuana, natural THC, or paraphernalia for persons over the age of 21."

The bill would additionally prohibit state and local law officials from enforcing federal marijuana laws. As for Step Two -- profit -- Ammiano's bill calls for "establishing a fee on the sale of marijuana at a rate of $50 per ounce." Mecke said that would bring in roughly $1 billion for the state, according to estimates made by marijuana advocacy organizations. ""

I appreciate your time in reading my e-mail and hope that I can persuade more of our citizens to contact you just as I have. Just need an ear to listen.

Sincerely grateful for your time,

Your name here.