And this is actually catching people by surprise?

That’s what the Berkeley City Council in California has unanimously approved, ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2 percent of their stash to patients making less than $32,000 a year.

The new welfare program in the liberal-leaning city is set to launch in August 2015.

The ordinance, which passed in August and is the first of its kind in the country, comes at a time when several states are debating how to handle a growing movement to legalize marijuana for both medical and recreational use.

via City mandates free medical marijuana for low-income residents – New York News.

And they are not being original. The Netherlands have been giving government-issued heroin to junkies for quite a while now.  So basically the Dutch taxpayers are paying to give drug addicts their daily dose.

The ultimate Government Handout.