FAQ on city tax for LA Coops and Collectives
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Medical cannabis cooperative and collective operators can also read an FAQ on the new Measure M tax on the city’s web page.
Resources and Information for the Medical Marijuana Movement
Medical cannabis cooperative and collective operators can also read an FAQ on the new Measure M tax on the city’s web page.
Medical cannabis cooperatives and collectives in Los Angeles should already be paying a “sin tax” of 5% of their gross receipts. The tax was created by Measure M, a voter initiative proposed by the City Council last year. Tax is due effective April 18, 2011. Patients associations can download forms to pay the tax from the city’s web page.
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Executive Director Steph Sherer and I are visiting eleven cities in California between August 19 and September 1. You can see when we will be near you online and download fliers to help spread the word. Our goal is to educate, empower, and mobilize the grassroots base of support for medical cannabis! We will be hosting free trainings and stakeholders meetings in each city. We will also be meeting with organizers, community members, and elected officials to push the local, state, and federal agendas forward. Make plans to see us this month!
From Nug Magazine -
“SAN DIEGO – After listening to almost two hours of public commentary, both in favor and against repealing the ordinances that attempted to regulate medicinal marijuana co-ops, the city council reluctantly voted 6 to 2 in favor of repeal.
The two repealed ordinances would have prohibited medicinal marijuana co-ops from operating in commercial zones, and within 600 ft of schools, parks, churches, day cares, and each other. Forcing San Diego County medicinal marijuana patients to travel to a few industrial zones in the city’s out skirts to obtain their medication…”
Read the entire post on Nug Magazine’s web site.