the meaning and implementation of this Act to favor and benefit this
class of adults, and business entities as follows:

  (1) No taxes, fees, laws, rules, regulations, zones, local city or
  county zoning requirements may be adopted or enacted to defeat,
  deny, or prohibit the purposes of this Act, or to defeat, deny, or
  prohibit this adult class or, associations, organizations,
  commercial, agricultural, or industrial businesses authorized
  herein, from engaging in the activities authorized and protected by
  this Act.

  (2) Adults 21 years and older may produce up to 6 mature outdoor
  flowering plants, or up to 12 mature indoor flowering plants per
  person, or a total number of plants cultivated per household not to
  exceed 12 mature flowering plants outdoors or 24 plants indoors. The
  cultivation shall take place in an indoor or outdoor space or area
  not visible to the public. These plants and their produce may not be
  made available for sale.

  (3) Nothing in this section shall prevent a property owner from
  prohibiting conduct that damages their property.

  (4) This Act creates and requires statewide standards and preempts
  and nullifies any and all conflicting local regulations, while
  allowing local jurisdictions limited regulation under Health and
  Safety Code 11570 over cultivation in residential and school zones
  only. Local regulations cannot decrease plants in (d)(2) above but
  may allow a greater number of plants instead.

  (5) No regulations, taxes, or fees shall be enacted or imposed upon
  marijuana for qualifying business entities, which are more severe or
  restrictive than those comparable and reasonable in the commercial
  wine grape farming and winery regulations of the alcohol industry
  model.

(e) State, local, elected, appointed, hired employees, officers, and
officials shall not directly or indirectly cooperate with or assist
federal state, local officers or officials, volunteers, or employees
who eradicate marijuana, act for seizure or forfeiture, or to defeat
any liberally construed purpose of this Act, nor may any state or
local agency contract to eradicate marijuana that is being grown,
manufactured or stored under the provisions of this Act.

(f) Within 30 days of passage of this Act, the offices of both the
state Attorney General and the Department of Public Health shall
inform the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the
United States Attorney General, Congress, Drug Enforcement Agency, and
Food and Drug Administration that in 1996 the state of California
recognized the current medical use of marijuana in treatment in the
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