It is inhumane to tax the sick...those in need of medicines. Yet some of those proposing re-legalization of medicinal marijuana are saying that the resultant taxes will have this or that economic benefit to municipalities or whatnot.

The reason the tax proposal has been used by some medical marijuana supporters seems to be to bribe public officials with money to do something that is simply humane and sensible.

With taxes added to the medicinal marijuana picture, what comes with that is a whole troubling layer of unwanted and unneeded oversight from city, state and federal tax agencies, not to mention the added burdens on providers. It is not difficult to expect that some of those tax collection officials and agencies will, for political, personal, or business reasons, be arbitrarily and excessively tough on medicinal marijuana users and providers. To prevent those almost inevitable injustices, tax officials must not be in the picture to begin with.

Re-legalizing medical marijuana (and, later, recreational marijuana and agricultural hemp) will save municipalities overall billions of dollars currently now wasted on Law Enforcement, judges, prosecutors and prisons...not to mention the productive lives that have been ruined by the prohibitionary laws. That massive savings can offer the Money Appeal to those inclined to prioritize that.

No precedent blocks the idea of taxing recreational marijuana much the same as there are taxes on tea, coffee, alcohol, and other non-essentials. Though, ideally, agricultural hemp ought be initially massively subsidized (not taxed) to establish it as a benign and viable alternative to pesticide-intensive crops, to toxic synthetic fabrics, to petroleum-based plastics, to many pulp-timber operations, and so forth, it too is a potential source of tax revenues...at least in the value-added end products.

This is to ask that the thought of taxing medicinal marijuana, or any medicine, be removed from consideration in any deliberations.

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That was text of a petition at Change.org
http://www.change.org/actions/view/no_taxes_on_medicines

It's just aimed at Pennsylvania officials because the site doesn't allow other targets in multiple states, the federal government, or activist groups. Only one petition target is permitted. If anyone wants to copy it to go to other states' officials or the feds, or to groups that support the tax-medicines idea, feel free.
It relates to pesticides etc because all forms of cannabis require no pesticides...or chlorine bleach.

Anyone can go to that link and sign the petition.

PS: The term "legalization", re/ cannabis issues, lacks the important hint that, throughout history, cannabis was as natural and "legal" as anything else...up until the Dows and Duponts cooked up their synthetic and toxic and patented alternatives to so many cannabis uses, and then demonized the plant out of legality.
"RE-legalization" acknowledges that history.