cannabisnews.com: Pro-Marijuana Advocates Seek Oakland Vote Pro-Marijuana Advocates Seek Oakland Vote Posted by CN Staff on February 20, 2004 at 09:28:53 PT By Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writer Source: San Francisco Chronicle A coalition of marijuana advocates launched an initiative campaign Thursday for a measure that would effectively legalize marijuana for personal use in Oakland and allow the city to tax and regulate pot sellers. The proposed initiative comes one day after the City Council gave its final approval to an ordinance that will restrict and regulate the operations of cannabis clubs that serve medical marijuana patients. Critics of the downtown "Oaksterdam" district claimed that a dozen unregulated clubs were sometimes selling recreational marijuana. The initiative, sponsored by a pro-marijuana coalition called the Oakland Civil Liberties Alliance, does not directly address medical marijuana issues. Instead, it would legalize all marijuana use for adults. The proposed ballot measure would instruct city officials "to tax and regulate the sale of cannabis for adult use, so as to keep it off the street and away from children, and to raise revenue for the city." The measure also asks city officials to advocate state legalization of marijuana for adult use and directs police to give lowest priority to investigating private marijuana use. Note: Initiative would put cannabis legalization on November ballot.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/20/BAG6654QT01.DTL Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)Author: Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writer Published: Friday, February 20, 2004 - Page A - 23 Copyright: 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Contact: letters sfchronicle.comWebsite: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/Related Articles & Web Site:California NORMLhttp://www.canorml.org/Advocates Get Down To Grass Taxhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18363.shtmlActivists Plant Pot Seeds at City Hall http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18346.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #3 posted by OverwhelmSam on February 21, 2004 at 04:13:11 PT: Another Round For Legalization Marijuana laws seem set to collapse like a house of cards around all the initiatives for legalization this voting season. If you're not registered to vote, contact your county to find out what you need to do, and then vote come hell or high water. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by BigDawg on February 20, 2004 at 12:08:35 PT Go Oakland! I've been hoping for something like this since San Fransisco raised the possibility of growing it for their medical users.If we can get a city to make a bold move... then it pits the city against the feds... rather than individuals.This is were it starts getting good! [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by fearfull on February 20, 2004 at 10:52:58 PT What next? I imagine that a state initiative can't be far behind. And all I can say is it's about time! [ Post Comment ] Post Comment