.Daily Roundup: Another Union Backs Tax Cannabis 2010; L.A. County Top Cop Calls Pot ‘Oil Spill in Your Own Brain’

With just 49 percent of Californians for and 41 percent against taxing and regulating cannabis like alcohol, the November ballot initiative to do so needs all the help it can get. On Thursday, it got some more when the Communications Workers of America Local 9415 endorsed Tax Cannabis 2010. “The labor movement is coming together behind this initiative,” said Sally Venable, President of CWA, Local 9415. “With California’s state budget in disarray, and people out of work, it’s time to harness this incredible revenue stream and create tens of thousands of high quality, union jobs, by controlling and taxing cannabis in California.” The union cites a study by the California chapter of NORML showing that a controlled and taxed cannabis market could create between 60,000 and 110,000 new jobs, and $2.5 to $3.5 billion in new wages for workers each year. More news after the jump.

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