The Berkeley, CA city council has tentatively voted to force the 3 and soon-to-be 4 medical marijuana dispensaries to give away 2% of their marijuana to the poor and homeless in their community each year. And the pot they give away can’t be poor quality either. The proposed city ordinance reads (PDF) that the “medical cannabis provided under this section shall be the same quality on average” as marijuana “dispensed to other members.”

According to this report, an eligible person must qualify for exemption from local taxes and fees, an income level that’s set every year by the city council. That equates to $32,000 a year for one person and $46,000 a year for a family of four. The free pot ordinance is awaiting final approval, but could become law in August.

So… free Obama bud. What could go wrong? Check out this video:

This is so Berkeley… a bunch of old-school hippies drugging the poor, whilst penalizing business, to “shield the less fortunate” from “the pain that society inflicts” upon them. Are they not going to simply reinforce the stereotype that the poor are just a bunch of losers and stoners, which is completely counterproductive to their chronic hypocritical whines for economic justice? Being poor is never a desirable position but isn’t this creating yet one more incentive to stay poor? What’s next? Groceries, cars, gas, clothing, McDonald’s all mandated to give 2% of their goods to the indigent? And yes, this violates federal law but who really cares? Certainly not Holder and Obama.

Free dope, free food, free phones, free housing, free birth control, free medical… In the Age of Obama we have moved exponentially closer toward that utopian socialism, comrade.

UPDATE 9/4/14: “Weed Welfare” is now a go in Berkeley, California. The City Council has unanimously approved the ordinance, ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2% of their best stash to patients making less than $32,000 a year. It’s set to launch in August of 2015.

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