La Californie s’apprête à voter sur la légalisation de la marijuana à des fins récréatives

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La Californie s’apprête à voter sur la légalisation de la marijuana à des fins récréatives

12 juillet 2016

Dès l’année prochaine, la Californie pourrait devenir le plus grand marché légal de marijuana au monde. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Tim Walker - Independent

California will vote on whether to legalise marijuana for recreational purposes on 8 November, after an initiative backing the measure secured the 402,000 valid signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. The California Secretary of State’s office announced on Tuesday that voters could now decide whether to approve the creation of the world’s largest legal marijuana market.

If passed, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) would permit California adults aged 21 or over to possess and carry up to an ounce of marijuana, and to grow up to six cannabis plants for personal use. It would create the framework for a distribution and retail market, managed by a new Bureau of Marijuana Control, with a 15 per cent tax on all cannabis product sales.

Jason Kinney, a spokesman for the initiative, said the news marked “a fresh start for California,” adding that AUMA would “replace the costly, harmful and ineffective system of prohibition with a safe, legal and responsible adult-use marijuana system that gets it right and completely pays for itself.”

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