Californians 捜し出す マリファナ of gold in マリファナ legalization
By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 3 (Reuters) - There is no 保証（人） California will 投票（する） to 合法化する recreational マリファナ in November, but political operative and father of four Daniel Conway has already 火刑／賭けるd his 未来 on it.
Conway left his 職業 as 長，指導者 of staff to Sacramento's celebrity 市長, former 不死鳥／絶品 Suns NBA basketball 星／主役にする Kevin Johnson, to help start the マリファナ 投資 company Truth 企業s.
He is one of hundreds in the most populous U.S. 明言する／公表する already 押し進めるing ahead with 計画（する）s to enter a market 専門家s say will be 価値（がある） $4 billion by 2020.
"I'm someone of an age and of a demographic that sees the legalization and 正常化 of マリファナ as 必然的な," said Conway, 35. "This was a chance not just to build companies but to build an 産業."
With a 全住民 of nearly 40 million people, and a 栄えるing 医療の マリファナ 貿易（する） 合法化するd 20 years ago, California already has the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs' largest 合法的な マリファナ market. Legalization of recreational マリファナ would 生成する an 概算の $1 billion in 付加 税金s per year.
If 投票者s in November 認可する a 手段 to 合法化する and 税金 マリファナ that qualified last Tuesday for the 投票（する）, California would be the fifth U.S. 明言する／公表する - and by far the largest - to 許す マリファナ for recreational use, joining Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska, 同様に as the 地区 of Columbia.
A 類似の 投票（する） init iative failed in California in 2010, but 最近の 投票s show strong support for legalization. The 最新の 成果／努力 is 支援するd by mainstream leaders 含むing 中尉／大尉／警部補 知事 Gavin Newsom, who helped 交渉する the 規則s and 税金s it would 課す.
Eight other 明言する／公表するs, 含むing Nevada and Maine, also have recreational or 医療の マリファナ 提案s 長，率いるd for their 2016 投票（する）s. California's sheer size as the world's 6th largest economy means a 決定／判定勝ち（する） by its 投票者s to 合法化する マリファナ could 加速する the 傾向 どこかよそで.
"I don't believe there will be any precedent in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs that can compare to it except for maybe the Gold 急ぐ," said Leslie Bocskor, whose Nevada-based 私的な 公正，普通株主権 会社／堅い, Electrum Partners, advises and 投資するs in マリファナ-関係のある 商売／仕事s.
The 誘惑する of wealth in an uncharted 産業 is so 広大な／多数の／重要な that thousands of people are jostling for position, said Bocskor.
Since January, 115 new California companies have joined the 国家の Cannabis 産業 協会, bringing total 会員の地位 in the 明言する／公表する to 330, said 副 Director Taylor West.
New companies 含む cultivators, dispensaries, 研究室／実験室s, 法律 共同s, accountants, ソフトウェア developers, 保険会社s and more, she said.
Their challenge is to 始める，決める up an 組織／基盤／下部構造 for a 商売／仕事 that is not yet 合法的な. Conway and his 商売／仕事 partner, General Hydroponics CEO Ross Haley, for example, recently 購入（する）d 農地 in Northern California that they hope to use to grow マリファナ but would not say where before the 手段 is passed.
Newport Beach-based Terra Tech is trying to 準備する for recreational sales while building a 合法的な 商売／仕事 within the 明言する／公表する's 医療の マリファナ marketplace, which has 年次の sales of $2.7 法案 イオン.
The company spent more than $800,000 designing and remodeling its Oakland dispensary to look more like a high-end lounge than a 淡褐色 医療の clinic, said CEO Derek Peterson. It also developed colorful 一括ing for its マリファナ instead of dispensing it in prescription 瓶／封じ込めるs.
にもかかわらず such 楽観主義, passage of the California 手段 is not 確かな . It is …に反対するd by many of the same 法律 施行 and health care groups who helped 敗北・負かす the 2010 率先.
But this time 支援者s have the 深い pockets of former Facebook 大統領，／社長 Sean Parker, support from Newsom - a 民主党員 推定する／予想するd to run for 知事 in 2018 - and a switch in 態度 の中で 投票者s who saw legalization come on line in other 明言する／公表するs.
The 手段 would 許す adults age 21 and older to 所有する up to one ounce of マリファナ, cultivate up to six 工場／植物s and 始める，決めるs 支配するs for 商業の cultivation, 製造（する） and sale. It 含むs 支配するs 目的（とする）d at keeping cannabis 製品s from children, 妨げるing impaired 運動ing and 要求するing licenses for 販売人s.
Newsom said he is 支援 it as a way to responsibly manage legalization, which he 見解（をとる）s as 必然的な but necessary to 扱う carefully.
"As a guy with four kids, who doesn't like the 麻薬, doesn't like the smell, doesn't want my kids to think it's 標準的にする／正常にするd, this is my number one 関心," Newsom said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Ben Klayman and Andrew Hay)
