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COUNTY REGISTERED VOTERS ONLY

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: THIS PETITION MAY BE CIRCULATED BY A PAIDSIGNATURE GATHERER OR A VOLUNTEER. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK.

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INITIaTIVE MEaSuRE TO bE SubMITTED DIREcTLY TO ThE VOTERS

The Attorney General o Caliornia has prepared the ollowing title and summary o the chie purpose and points o the proposed measure:

CHANGES CALIFORNIA LAW TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND ALLOW IT TO BE REGULATED ANDTAXED. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Allows people 21 years old or older to possess, cultivate, or transport marijuanaor personal use. Permits local governments to regulate and tax commercial production and sale o marijuana topeople 21 years old or older. Prohibits people rom possessing marijuana on school grounds, using it in public,smoking it while minors are present, or providing it to anyone under 21 years old. Maintains current prohibitionsagainst driving while impaired. Summary o estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director o Finance o scalimpact on state and local governments: Savings o up to several tens o millions o dollars annually to state andlocal governments on the costs o incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana ofenders. Unknown butpotentially major tax, ee, and benet assessment revenues to state and local government related to the productionand sale o marijuana products.

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(To be completed in the circulator’s own hand ater above signatures have beenobtained). I am registered to vote or qualied to register to vote in the State o Caliornia. I circulated this section o thepetition and witnessed each o the appended signatures being written. Each signature on this petition is, to the best o myinormation and belie, the genuine signature o the person whose name it purports to be. All signatures on this documentwere obtained between / / and / / .

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INITIaTIVE MEaSuRE TO bE SubMITTED DIREcTLY TO ThE VOTERS

The Attorney General o Caliornia has prepared the ollowing title and summary o the chie purpose and points o the proposed measure:

To te honorle Seretry of Stte of cliforni:

We, the undersigned, registered, qualifed voters o the aorementioned County (or City and County), on the signature pageo this petition section, hereby propose amendments to the Health and Saety Code relating to cannabis and related matters,and petition the Secretary o State to submit the same to the voters o Caliornia or their adoption or rejection at the nextsucceeding general election or at any special statewide election held prior to that general election or otherwise provided bylaw. The proposed statutory amendments read as ollows:

The Regulte, control nd Tx cnnis at o 2010

Setion 1: Nme

This Act shall be known as the “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Acto 2010.”

Setion 2: Findings, Intent nd Purposes

This Act, adopted by the People o the State o Caliornia, makes the ollowingFindings and Statement o Intent and Purpose:

a. Findings

1. Caliornia’s laws criminalizing cannabis (marijuana) have ailed and needto be reormed. Despite spending decades arresting millions o non-violent cannabis consumers, we have ailed to control cannabis orreduce its availability.2. According to surveys, roughly 100 million Americans (around 1/3 o thecountry’s population) acknowledge that they have used cannabis, 15million o those Americans having consumed cannabis in the last month.Cannabis consumption is simply a act o lie or a large percentage oAmericans.3. Despite having some o the strictest cannabis laws in the world, the UnitedStates has the largest number o cannabis consumers. The percentage oour citizens who consume cannabis is double that o the percentage opeople who consume cannabis in the Netherlands, a country where theselling and adult possession o cannabis is allowed.4. According to The National Research Council’s recent study o the 11 U.S.states where cannabis is currently decriminalized, there is little apparentrelationship between severity o sanctions and the rate o consumption.5. Cannabis has ewer harmul eects than either alcohol or cigarettes, whichare both legal or adult consumption. Cannabis is not physically addictive,does not have long term toxic eects on the body, and does not cause itsconsumers to become violent.6. There is an estimated $15 billion in illegal cannabis transactions inCaliornia each year. Taxing and regulating cannabis, like we do withalcohol and cigarettes, will generate billions o dollars in annual revenuesor Caliornia to und what matters most to Caliornians: jobs, health care,schools and libraries, roads, and more.7. Caliornia wastes millions o dollars a year targeting, arresting, trying,convicting, and imprisoning non-violent citizens or cannabis relatedoenses. This money would be better used to combat violent crimes andgangs.8. The illegality o cannabis enables or the continuation o an out-o-controlcriminal market, which in turn spawns other illegal and oten violentactivities. Establishing legal, regulated sales outlets would put dangerousstreet dealers out o business.

b. Purposes

1. Reorm Caliornia’s cannabis laws in a way that will benet our state.2. Regulate cannabis like we do alcohol: Allow adults to possess andconsume small amounts o cannabis.3. Implement a legal regulatory ramework to give Caliornia more controlover the cultivation, processing, transportation, distribution, and sales ocannabis.4. Implement a legal regulatory ramework to better police and preventaccess to and consumption o cannabis by minors in Caliornia.5. Put dangerous, underground street dealers out o business, so theirinfuence in our communities will ade.6. Provide easier, saer access or patients who need cannabis or medicalpurposes.7. Ensure that i a city decides not to tax and regulate the sale o cannabis,that buying and selling cannabis within that city’s limits remain illegal,but that the city’s citizens still have the right to possess and consume smallamounts, except as permitted under Health and Saety Sections 11362.5and 11362.7 through 11362.9.8. Ensure that i a city decides it does want to tax and regulate the buyingand selling o cannabis (to and rom adults only), that a strictly controlledlegal system is implemented to oversee and regulate cultivation,distribution, and sales, and that the city will have control over how and howmuch cannabis can be bought and sold, except as permitted under Healthand Saety Sections 11362.5 and 11362.7 through 11362.9.9. Tax and regulate cannabis to generate billions o dollars or our state andlocal governments to und what matters most: jobs, healthcare, schoolsand libraries, parks, roads, transportation, and more.

10.

Stop arresting thousands o non-violent cannabis consumers, reeing uppolice resources and saving millions o dollars each year, which could beused or apprehending truly dangerous criminals and keeping them lockedup, and or other essential state needs that lack unding.

11.

Allow the Legislature to adopt a statewide regulatory system or acommercial cannabis industry.

12.

Make cannabis available or scientic, medical, industrial, and researchpurposes.

13.

Permit Caliornia to ulll the state’s obligations under the United StatesConstitution to enact laws concerning health, morals, public welare andsaety within the State.14. Permit the cultivation o small amounts o cannabis or personalconsumption.

c. Intent

1. This Act is intended to limit the application and enorcement o state andlocal laws relating to possession, transportation, cultivation, consumption

and sale o cannabis, including but not limited to the ollowing, whethernow existing or adopted in the uture: Health and Saety Code sections11014.5 and 11364.5 [relating to drug paraphernalia]; 11054 [relating tocannabis or tetrahydrocannabinols]; 11357 [relating to possession];11358 [relating to cultivation]; 11359 [possession or sale]; 11360[relating to transportation and sales]; 11366 [relating to maintenance oplaces]; 11366.5 [relating to use o property]; 11370 [relating topunishment]; 11470 [relating to oreiture]; 11479 [relating to seizure anddestruction]; 11703 [relating to denitions regarding illegal substances];11705 [actions or use o illegal controlled substance]; Vehicle Codesections 23222 and 40000.15 [relating to possession].2. This Act is not intended to aect the application or enorcement o theollowing state laws relating to public health and saety or protection ochildren and others: Health and Saety Code sections 11357 [relating topossession on school grounds]; 11361 [relating to minors as amendedherein]; 11379.6 [relating to chemical production]; 11532 [relating toloitering to commit a crime or acts not authorized by law]; Vehicle Codesection 23152 [relating to driving while under the infuence]; Penal Codesection 272 [relating to contributing to the delinquency o a minor]; nor anylaw prohibiting use o controlled substances in the workplace or by specicpersons whose jobs involve public saety.

Setion 3: Lwul ativities

Article 5 o Chapter 5 o Division 10 o the Health and Saety Code,commencing with section 11300 is added to read:

Setion 11300: Personl Regultion nd controls

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision o law, it is lawul and shall not be apublic oense under Caliornia law or any person 21 years o age orolder to:(i) Personally possess, process, share, or transport not more than oneounce o cannabis, solely or that individual’s personal consumption,and not or sale.(ii) Cultivate, on private property by the owner, lawul occupant, orother lawul resident or guest o the private property owner orlawul occupant, cannabis plants or personal consumption only,in an area o not more than twenty-ve square eet per privateresidence or, in the absence o any residence, the parcel.Cultivation on leased or rented property may be subject to approvalrom the owner o the property. Provided that, nothing in thissection shall permit unlawul or unlicensed cultivation o cannabison any public lands.(iii) Possess on the premises where grown the living and harvestedplants and results o any harvest and processing o plants lawullycultivated pursuant to section 11300(a)(ii), or personalconsumption.(iv) Possess objects, items, tools, equipment, products and materialsassociated with activities permitted under this subsection.(b) “Personal consumption” shall include but is not limited to possessionand consumption, in any orm, o cannabis in a residence or other non-public place, and shall include licensed premises open to the publicauthorized to permit on-premises consumption o cannabis by a localgovernment pursuant to section 11301.(c) “Personal consumption” shall not include, and nothing in this Act shallpermit cannabis:(i) possession or sale regardless o amount, except by a person whois licensed or permitted to do so under the terms o an ordinanceadopted pursuant to section 11301;(ii) consumption in public or in a public place;(iii) consumption by the operator o any vehicle, boat or aircrat while itis being operated, or that impairs the operator;(iv) smoking cannabis in any space while minors are present.

Setion 11301: commeril Regultions nd controls

Notwithstanding any other provision o state or local law, a local governmentmay adopt ordinances, regulations, or other acts having the orce o law tocontrol, license, regulate, permit or otherwise authorize, with conditions,the ollowing:(a) cultivation, processing, distribution, the sae and secure transportation,sale and possession or sale o cannabis, but only by persons and inamounts lawully authorized;(b) retail sale o not more than one ounce per transaction, in licensedpremises, to persons 21 years or older, or personal consumption andnot or resale;(c) appropriate controls on cultivation, transportation, sales, andconsumption o cannabis to strictly prohibit access to cannabis bypersons under the age o 21;(d) age limits and controls to ensure that all persons present in, employedby, or in any way involved in the operation o, any such licensedpremises are 21 or older;(e) consumption o cannabis within licensed premises;() sae and secure transportation o cannabis rom a licensed premisesor cultivation or processing, to a licensed premises or sale or on-premises consumption o cannabis;(g) prohibit and punish through civil nes or other remedies the possession,sale, possession or sale, cultivation, processing, or transportation ocannabis that was not obtained lawully rom a person pursuant to thissection or section 11300;(h) appropriate controls on licensed premises or sale, cultivation,processing, or sale and on-premises consumption, o cannabis,including limits on zoning and land use, locations, size, hours ooperation, occupancy, protection o adjoining and nearby properties andpersons rom unwanted exposure, advertising, signs and displays, andother controls necessary or protection o the public health and welare;(i) appropriate environmental and public health controls to ensure that anylicensed premises minimizes any harm to the environment, adjoining andnearby landowners, and persons passing by;(j) appropriate controls to restrict public displays, or public consumption ocannabis;(k) appropriate taxes or ees pursuant to section 11302;(l) such larger amounts as the local authority deems appropriate and properunder local circumstances, than those established under section11300(a) or personal possession and cultivation, or under this sectionor commercial cultivation, processing, transportation and sale bypersons authorized to do so under this section;(m) any other appropriate controls necessary or protection o the publichealth and welare.

Setion 11302: Imposition nd colletion o Txes nd Fees

(a) Any ordinance, regulation or other act adopted pursuant to section 11301may include imposition o appropriate general, special or excise,transer or transaction taxes, benet assessments, or ees, on anyactivity authorized pursuant to such enactment, in order to permit thelocal government to raise revenue, or to recoup any direct or indirectcosts associated with the authorized activity, or the permitting orlicensing scheme, including without limitation: administration;applications and issuance o licenses or permits; inspection o licensedpremises and other enorcement o ordinances adopted under section11301, including enorcement against unauthorized activities.(b) Any licensed premises shall be responsible or paying all ederal, stateand local taxes, ees, nes, penalties or other nancial responsibilityimposed on all or similarly situated businesses, acilities or premises,including without limitation income taxes, business taxes, license ees,and property taxes, without regard to or identication o the business oritems or services sold.

Setion 11303: Seizure

(a) Notwithstanding sections 11470 and 11479 o the Health and SaetyCode or any other provision o law, no state or local law enorcementagency or ocial shall attempt to, threaten to, or in act seize or destroyany cannabis plant, cannabis seeds or cannabis that is lawullycultivated, processed, transported, possessed, possessed or sale, soldor used in compliance with this Act or any local government ordinance,law or regulation adopted pursuant to this Act.

Setion 11304: Eet o at nd Defnitions

(a) This Act shall not be construed to aect, limit or amend any statute thatorbids impairment while engaging in dangerous activities such asdriving, or that penalizes bringing cannabis to a school enrolling pupils inany grade rom kindergarten through 12, inclusive.(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed or interpreted to permit interstateor international transportation o cannabis. This Act shall be construedto permit a person to transport cannabis in a sae and secure mannerrom a licensed premises in one city or county to a licensed premises inanother city or county pursuant to any ordinances adopted in suchcities or counties, notwithstanding any other state law or the lack o anysuch ordinance in the intervening cities or counties.(c) No person shall be punished, ned, discriminated against, or be deniedany right or privilege or lawully engaging in any conduct permittedby this Act or authorized pursuant to Section 11301 o this Act. Providedhowever, that the existing right o an employer to address consumptionthat actually impairs job perormance by an employee shall not beaected.