A state Assembly committee on Tuesday approved legislation to legalize the possession, sale or cultivation of marijuana by adults. (The bill later died when a separate committee refused to hear the bill.) A ballot measure is circulating to accomplish the same goal.
But just last June, the state’s official risk assessment agency, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, officially added marijuana smoke to the “Proposition 65 list,” determining that “marijuana smoke was clearly shown, through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles, to cause cancer.”
Therefore, marijuana smoke has been placed in the same category as second-hand tobacco smoke.
So which is it, people? Legalize and tax it? Or label it and banish the stuff from polite society?