{"id":5526,"date":"2016-02-11T02:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=46874"},"modified":"2016-02-11T02:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:36:25","slug":"california-excise-tax-on-medical-marijuana-sales-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-excise-tax-on-medical-marijuana-sales-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"California: Excise Tax On Medical Marijuana Sales Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/california-excise-tax-on-medical-marijuana-sales-proposed\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A state senator from Northern California has introduced a bill that would impose a 15 percent tax on retail sales of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike McGuire estimated that the excise tax he proposed Wednesday would bring the state over $100 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>The Healdsburg Democrat&#8217;s SB987 directs 30 percent of the revenues collected to the new state agency charged with enforcing the new medical marijuana licensing regulations the Legislature approved last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation would be charged with distributing the funds as grants to help local governments with the costs of enforcing the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire&#8217;s bill also would dedicate 20 percent of the excise tax money to running and maintaining state parks and 10 percent to county substance abuse programs.<\/p>\n<p>Like other tax measures, the bill requires a two-thirds vote to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A state senator from Northern California has introduced a bill that would impose a 15 percent tax on retail sales of medical marijuana. Sen. Mike McGuire estimated that the excise tax he proposed Wednesday would bring the state over $100 million annually. The Healdsburg Democrat&#8217;s SB987 directs 30 percent of the [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,5117,2437,5118,9,5119,1,3],"tags":[2628,5120,2443,5121,5122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}