Gifting cannabis to the terminally ill becomes tax-exempt in California Terminally ill Californians caught a break last month when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to make medical marijuana donations tax-exempt. Starting March 1, 2020, as much as $ 53 million in so-called “compassionate” medical cannabis donations each year could go the needy, state analysts estimate. That’s enough to gift about 125,000 patients about one gram of flower per day, every day, for a year. Activists say they’re happy with the new law, although it falls short of what they were hoping for. “It feels really good. This is what democracy is all about,” said Sweetleaf Collective founder Joe Airone, a bill proponent. An oversight in Prop. 64 The need for the Brownie Mary and Dennis Peron Act, sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, came about with the opening of California’s legal adult-use era in early 2018. From 1996 to the end of 2017, it was easier to freely gift medical cannabis to patients in need. Joe Airone describes the good old days when he would pick up free weed from medical growers on his bicycle, take it back to the collective, break it into smaller portions, and bike around giving it to the elderly, poor, and terminally ill. #prop64 #stolen #terminallyill #governor #gavinnewsom #taxes #taxpayers #humanity #holysmokestv #holysmokes #holysmokescrafts #oneman #solo #cannabis #reform #legalization #safeaccess #news #ismokecannabis #medicalcannabis #thc #cbd #breal #massroots #rawlife #rawlife247 #losangeles #california #ca #la (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Slzx_hnLI/?igshid=al03qgnyyqam