Los Angeles County voters will decide this fall whether to tax marijuana businesses to help pay for housing and health services for the homeless. Supervisors Sheila Kuehl, Hilda Solis and Don Knabe voted for the marijuana tax, with Michael D. Antonovich and Ridley-Thomas voting against. Collecting from marijuana businesses, which typically run on cash, will also raise potential security issues for county tax collectors. The supervisors went into a closed-door meeting ahead of the discussion of marijuana and the homeless tax, which were not on the closed session agenda. But Ridley-Thomas said that the county needed more time to look at the issues surrounding a marijuana tax and that he had not given up on the sales tax.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 13, 2016 01:50 UTC