Bush Chief of Staff Sponsored a Mass. Tax and Regulate Bill

White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/card-bio.html served in the
Massachusetts House of Represenatives from 1975 to 1983. In 1982, Mr. Card
was named Legislator of the Year by the National Republican Legislators
Association and received the Distinguished Legislator Award from the
Massachusetts Municipal Association.

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Added fact:

In 1981, State Representative Andrew Card, Jr. introduced, by request,
Massachusetts House Bill 1737, the Massachusetts Cannabis Revenue and
Education Bill, to create a Cannabis Control Authority to regulate the
commercial production and distribution of marijuana, with different
licenses required for importation, cultivation, processing and retailing
activities. Marijuana would be retailed in three different
potencies: less than 2 percent, 2-5 percent, and 5 percent and more, and
taxed accordingly. Half the net revenues would be earmarked for drug
education. The bill prohibits all marijuana advertising.
(Summary from Stanley Neustandter, "Legalization Legislation: Confronting
the Details of Policy Choices," in Fish (ed.) How to Legalize Drugs
(Aronson: Northvale, NJ, 1998).

Who'd a thunk it?

Eric E. Sterling esterling [at] cjpf.org
President
The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
http://www.cjpf.org

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