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A bill that would reduce the excise tax for marijuana growers and impose a sales tax for consumers advanced from the House Labor and Commerce committee to the House Finance ....
A positive trend in the national marijuana movement is spending revenues generated on building up communities who have been adversely affected by the war on drugs. Subsequently, non-profit organizations have newly begun benefitting from state marijuana sales. In the last few years, the state of California had designated funding received from pot sales to provide grants to community organizations. Nearly $100 million dollars has already been disbursed, and the amount is expected to increase to $175 million this May. An example of an organization who is making a difference in the lives of people who have been through the criminal-justice system is ‘Fathers and Families of San Joaquin’. This small group received a $1 million grant in 2019 to train formerly incarcerated citizens to serve as substance-abuse counselors, conduct workshops for youth, and work as emergency response teams for domestic and child abuse. ....
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California is using some of the fees it collects from the sale of marijuana to help community organizations that serve communities harmed by the war on drugs. ....
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