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"California lawmakers are moving to levy taxes on medical marijuana growers after hammering out pot regulations last year.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0The Assembly voted 60-12 to pass AB2243 Thursday.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0The bill authorizes charges of $9.25 per ounce of marijuana flowers, $2.75 per ounce of pot leaves and $1.25 per ounce of immature pot plants.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0Legislative analysts estimate the taxes would raise $77 million annually for local police and environmental cleanup.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0Some marijuana activists oppose the taxes as unreasonably high, saying the flower tax alone would be 10 percent of marijuana's value.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood of Healdsburg says his proposal was killed at the last minute during negotiations to regulate marijuana\u00A0 last year.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0The Senate approved a 15 percent marijuana sales tax earlier this week. Local governments currently tax pot about 7.5 percent."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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