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US: Oakland City Council Council Delays Decision on Pot Tax Ballot Measure

Josh Wolf

San Francisco Chronicle

Friday 23 Jul 2010

The Oakland City Council is poised to put a new cannabis tax on the ballot that would give the council leverage to decide the final tax-rate, but the council can't vote until Monday on Council Member Rebecca Kaplan's last-minute proposal.

While many in the city are eager to see more money flowing into the city coffers, not everyone at the Thursday meeting liked the idea of the city taxing pot.

"You guys are turning into drug dealing tax mongers," an angry James Archibald told the council before leaving the council chambers nearly twenty minutes before the council began its debate.

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