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No marijuana billboards allowed? California is making it hard on legal weed
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Corrupting kids? A billboard near Los Angeles International Airport advertises the marijuana delivery service Eaze in 2018.Mario Tama / Getty Images 2018Show MoreShow Less
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A bill in the California Legislature would further limit cannabis billboards.Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images 2019Show MoreShow Less
California birthplace of the Grateful Dead, Snoop Dogg and the Weedmaps app is still uptight about marijuana, more than four years after voters legalized it for adult recreational use and 25 years after they OKd medicinal herb.
It’s baffling that there is still a stigma attached to cannabis in a state that grows more of it than anywhere else on the planet and whose legal industry employs more people than anywhere in the nation. The industry generated more than $3.7 billion in business last year in California, according to Leafly, a cannabis sales and news site.
Dear Assembly Members Jones-Sawyer and McCarty:
Human Rights Watch opposes the AB 1542 Yolo County pilot program that authorizes judges to sentence people to confinement in a locked treatment facility instead of prison or jail if the judge determines that their crime was motivated in part by substance abuse. We ask legislators to reject this bill and take a more holistic, rights-respecting approach to addressing problematic substance use and crime that may be connected to it.
The apparent premise of AB 1542 is that people with “Substance Use Disorders” (SUDs) have a medical condition that is best addressed through treatment as opposed to punishment. Human Rights Watch supports increasing the availability of evidence-based voluntary treatment for people who struggle with problematic use of psychoactive substances. However, this bill proposes forcing people involuntarily into “secured” or locked treatment, regulated by the courts, thus blurring the lines between medical care