California Lawmaker Wants To Make Marijuana Legal (Wyatt Buchanan)

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Feb. 24, 2009 SACRAMENTO (San Francisco Chronicle) -- California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco.

  The proposal would regulate marijuana like alcohol, with people over 21 years old allowed to grow, buy, sell and possess cannabis -- all of which is barred by federal law.

  Ammiano, a Democrat in his third month as a state lawmaker, said taxes and other fees associated with regulation could put more than a billion dollars a year into state coffers at a time when revenues continue to decline.

  He said he thinks the federal government could soften its stance on marijuana under the Obama administration.

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