Matt Haney, the San Francisco assembly member who wrote the bill, has said if it is approved it will help increase tax revenues by reducing illegal sales.
Smoking weed on the streets of Amsterdam’s inner city will soon be banned, the city’s council has announced.
The mayor of Amsterdam has sought to win political backing for her cleanup of the overcrowded red-light district by revealing that a third of foreign tourists and nearly half of Britons would be less likely to visit the city again if they were barred from buying cannabis in the coffee shops.