TEXT OF
LEGALIZATION PROPOSALS


The
2010 California  Initiatives:

        Common Sense Act of 2010

       
The Tax, Regulate, and Control Cannabis Act of 2010, (The Rogoway Initiative)

        The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 (The Lee Initiative)  [.pdf]

        California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative (The Jack Herer Initiative)

(A blogger's comparison of the California initiatives is  here.)

The 2010 Maine iniitative:

        An Act to Repeal the Prohibition on Cannabis, Hemp and Marijuana

The 2010 Oregon initiative:

        Oregon Cannabis Tax Act

The Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act, Assembly Bill 390, California, 2009.  (Report on preliminary hearings here.)

This is not a legalization proposal, but a Resolution adopted by the Rhode Island Senate appointing a commission to evaluate marijuana prohibition.  2009-S 1032, Senate Resolution Creating a Special Senate Committee to Study the Prohibition of Marijuana, adopted  July 2009. 

An Act to Regulate and Tax the Cannabis Industry, House Bill 2929, Massachusetts, 2009  
Note: This version on the state's website truncates the bill after Section 31 for software reasons. The balance of the statute is as contained in the Senate version, below.

(Also filed as Senate Bill 1801)
    (Summary)
    
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, iinitiative Petition No 136, for the election of November 4, 2008.

The Inalienable Rights Enforcement Initiative, California, 2008

California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative (The Herer Initiative)
, 2008

Regulation of Marijuana Initiative, Nevada 2006

Initiative Petition No. 3, State of Nevada, March 2, 2005


Oakland Cannabis Regulation and Revenue Ordinance, Initiative ballot measure,  Oakland, California, 2004

Initiative Petition No. 9, State of Nevada, 2002

The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act of 1997, Oregon, 1997


Colorado Hemp Initiative,  1994

The Cannabis Control Act,
Texas, 1993

Initiative Measure 595, Regulated Tolerance & Taxation of Marijuana, State of Washington, 1993

An Act to establish a controlled substance law ... in relation to the sale, distribution and cultivation of marijuana...,  
Senate Bill 4094-A, New York, 1991


The Marihuana Cultivation Control Act,  Senate Bill No. 464, Pennsylvania, 1983

The Pennsylvania Marijuana Cultivation Control Act of 1983,  Pennsylvania, 1983

The Oregon Marijuana Control Act of 1983, Senate Bill 497, Oregon, 1983

The Cannabis Revenue Act.  (Federal), 1982

The Cannabis Revenue and Education Act, Massachusetts, 1981

An act relating to a reduction of ad valorem tax millage; providing for a county option on the cultivation, possession, and sale of cannabis; authorizing such cultivation, possession, and sale in approving counties; providing certain conditions relating to the sale and taxation of cannabis; providing for the distribution of proceeds of such taxation and requiring a reduction of ad valorem tax millage; authorizing the board of county commissioners in approving counties to adopt certain ordinances; providing an effective date,  Florida 1979

An Act to amend the executive law, the penal law and the public health law, in relation to creating the state marjuana control authority and prescribing its powers and duties, and repealing certain provisions relating thereto, Assembly 4944, State of New York, 1971


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