Sacramento considers medical marijuana tax to close budget deficit

[The Straight Story]

Sacramento considers medical marijuana tax to close budget deficit


SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento City Manager Gus Vina said the taxation of medical marijuana to help close a $43 million budget gap is a distinct possibility and a step the city would take to "legitimatize" the business of marijuana sales.

"It's a recommendation we're going to make to the council as part of the budget hearings," Vina said.

Details on the plan are still not clear, and the tax would have to be approved by voters during an election.

"We just think that if we're going to go into the medical marijuana dispensary business, that this is an opportunity for us to raise revenue," Vina said.

Vina said the city is also grappling with how to regulate the existing marijuana dispensaries. According to Vina, there are currently 43 operations in the city. The plan is to reduce that number to 12, strategically located away from neighborhood gathering places such as schools and playgrounds.

That plan could be approved sometime this summer.

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Why not tax all meds like this? Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, Loratab, etc...

[rzemanfl]

1. Viagra tax works for me. n/t

[NV Whino]

2. No, Gus

Remove head from ass and listen up. First you legalize all marijuana, then you tax that. You do NOT tax medical marijuana.

[crikkett]

3. And legalize hemp, while you're at it.

Since just about all the forests are cut down.