California’s Prop 19 will be the most talked-about ballot initiative in the November election. This measure would make lawful the possession and sharing of one ounce of marijuana outside the home and allow for personal cultivation of a small marijuana garden and possession of its harvest in the home. California cities and counties would be able to opt-in to commercial sales, regulation, and taxation of marijuana. Existing prohibitions against driving under the influence and working under the influence would be maintained and prohibitions against furnishing marijuana to minors would be strengthened.
After almost 100 years of marijuana prohibition in California, marijuana is more popular and accepted than ever. Prohibition has clearly failed. Prop 19 gives us another choice, one that benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the nation and the world. Whether you are a regular marijuana user now, an occasional toker back in the day, or you’ve never touched the stuff, there are many compelling economic, social, public safety, and civil libertarian reasons to support its legalization. Here are nineteen reasons for six distinct groups of Californians to vote Yes on Prop 19.
For the Concerned Parents
1. To make pot more difficult for kids to buy. It might seem counter-intuitive to some, but illegal marijuana is much easier to acquire than regulated marijuana because weed dealers don’t check ID’s. Four out of five high school seniors, more than three in five sophomores, and two in five middle schoolers (8th grade) say marijuana is “fairly easy” or “very easy” to get. One third of 16-17-year-olds say marijuana is easiest to buy, not cigarettes, alcohol, or prescription drugs. Two out of five teens say they can get marijuana in a day; almost one in four can get marijuana in an hour. Obviously letting unregulated dealers control the marijuana market is not protecting your kids from access to marijuana. On the other hand, aggressive enforcement of ID carding for minors, combined with public education have led to some of the lowest rates of teen alcohol and tobacco use ever recorded. Prop 19 enacts the same common sense ID carding for marijuana as we use for martinis and Marlboros.
2. To make pot more difficult for kids to sell in school. Regardless of what regulations we put on marijuana, like alcohol and tobacco, there will be some kids who manage to get a hold of it. But part of what makes marijuana so easy for teens to buy is that they can all find in their high school one of the one million teens nationally who are dealing it. Legal access to marijuana for adults removes the criminal risk markup that makes pot so profitable. After all, when was the last time you heard of a beer dealer in a high school hallway? Prop 19 eliminates the huge profit that entices youngsters to sell marijuana.
3. To make pot less available for transfer from young adults. Governor Schwarzenegger signed a decriminalization bill that makes it an infraction, not a crime, to possess and share of up to one ounce of marijuana between anyone 18 and older. Prop 19 adds a stiff punishment of up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for any adult aged 21 or older who shares marijuana with anyone aged 18-20, just like we punish adults who furnish alcohol to those under legal age. When it’s tougher for those 18-20 to get marijuana, it’s tougher for them to share it friends under 18. Prop 19 treats marijuana like alcohol as a privilege for age 21 and older.
For the “Law and Order” Crowd
4. To decrease the profits of violent criminals. Prohibited marijuana brings with it the same problems as prohibited alcohol did – gangs and violence. We don’t see bootleggers shooting up the streets over whiskey distribution any more. We don’t see clandestine wine grape vineyards sprouting up in national forests. Providing California’s adults a legal way to grow or buy their own marijuana means violent drug gangs lose customers. No, these gangsters won’t stop being gangsters, but they will become gangsters with lower budgets and fewer associates. Prop 19 brings the dangerous underground marijuana market into a safe, regulated, inspected, and taxed legal market.
5. To increase public trust of law enforcement. Currently more than 1 in 10 adult Californians smoke pot every year. It is unknown how many of these 2.9 million annual users fail to report crimes for fear of police interviewing them and discovering the marijuana they possess or grow. Prohibition also creates fear and paranoia that lingers long after the joint is smoked for these adults whenever they see police, fear that even talking to police could end in a ticket or arrest. Prop 19 allows otherwise law-abiding cannabis consumers to trust and help law enforcement.
6. To prioritize our law enforcement. It is estimated that including the arrest, jail, prison, court, and marijuana eradication costs, California spends $200 million per year on marijuana law enforcement. Then there is the time and space we can’t afford in our overworked court system and overcrowded prisons. Prop 19 alleviates much of those problems while maintaining the current laws against irresponsible use of marijuana, such as driving under the influence and giving marijuana to kids. Prop 19 focuses police priorities away from adults who enjoy marijuana responsibly and onto real crime.
For the Medical Marijuana Patients
7. To protect your medical collectives. Over the fourteen years of medical marijuana in California we’ve seen numerous raids on medical marijuana collectives, or “dispensaries”. Many are conducted by state or local authorities, some by DEA but always with the cooperation and assistance of local law enforcement. Prop 19 forbids state and local law enforcement from seizing, attempting to seize, or even threatening to seize lawfully cultivated marijuana – medical or personal. Prop 19 makes it impossible for local law enforcement to assist federal prosecution of medical marijuana collectives.
8. To provide easier access to cheaper medicine. Currently a patient has to see a doctor and pay for a recommendation to use medical marijuana. The patient has to carry around that recommendation to prove medical use to the police. The patient can designate a caregiver to grow for them or buy from a dispensary at grossly inflated prices. After Prop 19, you can use marijuana simply because you decide to, no doctors, no notes. Any number of your friends could be growing marijuana for you. There may even be Prop 19 stores that open in your city. Prop 19 will lower marijuana prices and provide greater access to patients without need for permission slips.
9. To allow you to grow a lot of marijuana. For adults who decide not to get Prop 215 recommendations, you will be allowed under Prop 19 to cultivate a plot of marijuana not exceeding 25 square feet. The DEA has concluded that the average yield of cannabis bud per square foot is about one-half ounce – that’s over three quarters of a pound from a 5’x5’ garden. Prop 19 allows you to keep the results of your harvests; the one ounce limitation only applies to taking your marijuana out of your residence. Prop 19 does not impose arbitrary plant and possession limits at your home grow site.
For the Business Community
10. To create much-needed jobs. California’s marijuana market is already the largest cash crop in the state at an estimated $14 billion annually. This estimate only includes the marijuana itself and not all the ancillary industries a legal pot market would bring, from accessories to fashion, from tourism to retail, and all the incredible markets for marijuana’s non-drug cousin, industrial hemp. Prop 19 creates new job and business opportunities and opens the door for industrial use of hemp.
11. To bring in much-needed tax revenue. It’s true that Prop 19 allows localities to opt-in and regulate commercial cannabis sales and some places may not opt-in, reaping no marijuana taxes. But marijuana for personal use will still be legal and many of the ancillary industries could flourish in a “dry county” (e.g., marijuana bed’n’breakfast) and that would produce tax revenue. Prop 19 brings in more tax revenue from marijuana than we’re bringing in now.
12. To bring fairness to workplace drug testing. Prop 19 maintains an employer’s existing right to address marijuana impairment in the workplace – nobody gets to go to work stoned any more than they get to go to work drunk. But Prop 19 frees employers from the burden of disciplining, firing, or not hiring safe, productive workers for their personal use of marijuana away from the job site. Prop 19 treats employees who use cannabis responsibly in their private life like those employees who drink alcohol.
For the Latinos and African-Americans
13. To end the disproportionate arrest and harassment of people of color. African-Americans in California’s 25 largest counties are arrested at rates two-to-four times greater than their white counterparts, despite whites using marijuana at greater rates. In the 25 largest cities, the arrest disparity ranges from twice-to-thirteen times the rates for whites. Arrest rates for Latinos also exceed the rates for whites. Prop 19 removes the probable cause for law enforcement to harass people of color for merely possessing marijuana.
14. To end street-level dealing of marijuana. Marijuana’s profitability and scarcity create the open-air street-corner dealing that plagues many communities of color and utilizes juveniles to perform the transporting and selling of small amounts of pot. The profit enriches gangs and leads to violent confrontations over turf. Prop 19 will reduce the cost of marijuana and provide a regulated place to buy it that will undercut the street dealers.
15. To strike back at the murderous drug gangs in Mexico. Many Latino Californians worry for the safety of friends and family back in Mexico. Residents in northern border towns face violence and murder rates usually only found in war zones. Law abiding Mexicans don’t know if their law enforcement and government officials are corrupted by the wealthy gangs. Prop 19 is the first step in nationwide legalization that can be the only solution to Mexico’s drug war violence.
For the People of All Political Ideologies
16. To energize and connect with the progressive Democratic base. Prop 19 is overwhelmingly supported by the young, progressive, liberal voters that are the base of support for Democratic politicians. Many of these voters are not as enthusiastic about the Democrats as they were in 2008 when they turned out in record numbers. Prop 19’s passage forces the Democratic Party to recognize the get-out-the-vote potential of the marijuana legalization issue for future elections.
17. To build a new, younger Republican base on conservative principles. The Republican Party faces a decline in its numbers due to the aging of its core base of white male supporters. Younger, libertarian-leaning, “Tea Party” activists are calling for a return to conservative principles of states’ rights, less government, personal responsibility, and cutting wasteful government spending. Prop 19 affirms the right of states to set their own policies and begins to dismantle the most ineffective government program of all time – the War on Drugs.
18. To show the traditional political parties they aren’t responding to the people. Candidates for the highest offices in California from both major political parties refuse to endorse marijuana legalization even though more than half the citizens have used marijuana and support its legalization. Prop 19 reminds the major parties that they are the servants of the people and the people’s will is sovereign.
For the Future
19. To change the world. Prop 19 is not just another California initiative. Prop 19 is being watched in all fifty states and throughout the hemisphere as the “shot heard round the world” in ending the prohibition of marijuana.
It’s up to you, California, to take that one small step for your state that will be one giant leap for the nation. Vote Yes on Prop 19!
Amen
fantastic article.
Very well said! Got my fingers crossed for you guys.
Legalizing and utilizing cannabis is the healing of the nation. Farmers will grow it. Factories will manufacture items from it. Jobs will be created. Medical needs will be met. Crime will be reduced. Lives will be saved.
I’m sure we’re all aware of how much is riding on this vote. If it passes, reform will move forward state by state. If it does not, the movement will be set back years. Wish I lived in California to cast my vote. Those who do will have to do so in my stead. *fingers crossed*
Excellent article!
i hope the people of california see that this is the smart logical way to end the war on pot the usa needs to stop punishing its citizens for thier personal choice please vote yes on prop 19 ihope it passes and catches on in the rest of the usa punishing pot users with jail and loss of jobs and the loss of constitutional rights is not the principles this country was founded on americans should not be made to submit to drug testing in the name of safety,how immoral and intrusive
Yes California! Please for the sanity of the world.
Yes, marijuana should absolutely become legalized. My mother has multiple illnesses such as interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, and vertigo, and she also has had mastoiditis in the ear, which has lowered her balance level, and if it wasn’t for the marijuana she uses she would be a completely different person. It’s makes her lively, more talkative and energetic, and it helps her go to bed at night. I am very fortunate that we both have a source of different, high grade strains of marijuana in different forms, in a state in which it is illegal. It also helps to be friends with the dealer.
And quite frankly, I personally find it quite enjoyable myself. It also helps me go to bed quietly at night, and stop thinking about my mother falling and hitting her head on the nightstand, (also considering she has a blood clot in the vision part of her brain). Vertigo and a blood clot in the brain are not good combinations.
Thank God, for all the Cannabis plant can do, and all of its, subspecies and strains. And Thank God, for man, taking what mother nature gave him, and perfected it. I, and my mother, will never quit using marijuana for the rest of our lives, and my family accepts it perfectly.
Vote YES on Prop. 19, for all the medical patients and recreational users alike. HELP STOP LOCAL AND STATE WIDE RAIDS. I myself, do not live in California, but it’s a start. It’s a start for the United States and the World alike. How dare they try to eradicate God’s plant. VOTE YES!!
This is a great article, I hope it passes!
november 2nd may in well be our d-day for legalization…if it wins in CA. then it’s only a matter of time before we see the end of prohibition everywhere.
i urge all voters in CA. to vote yes. as we must win this battle if we don’t it could push us back in our fight for freedom. CA. its do or die time.
congarts sei, on a well written article, worthy of viral circulation.
*sir
Marijuana and industrial hemp are the TREE of LIFE. and
should be treated as such.Go Cali!!
Contrary to the popular opinion, Tea Party actually = breakfast for the fascist Republican base. They will not lean libertarian once Sarah Palin gets a hold of them. Rand Paul I’m sure will turn sides once they all decide “it’s more important to beat the Democrats than to fight for what’s right”.
I just wanted to point out that indiscretion. Yes we can energize young Republicans. However, Tea Party = spineless phonies = Republicans, basically.
Also at what point do we start attacking prohibitionists for who they really are? Villains with bad morals, who have no interest in protecting children! Seems to me that fear-based campaigns are the only ones that work nowadays…
just food for thought… My wife and I will certainly do our part this Nov. 2nd.
Cali is being watched throughout the whole country we are all hoping its yes so we can have our personal freedom VOTE YES CALI
If Cali doesn’t legalize it, then people like Calvina Fay are gonna parade around the media proclaiming how marijuana isn’t wanted in California because most Californians agree that marijuana is harmful to society.
Do you guys really want Calvina proclaiming victory on Nov. 2 and speaking for your rights, year after year? Can we show that dumb broad that truth reigns free?
Please, Cali. Do the right thing. Vote YES on 19!!
Our thoughts and prayers are with NORML because it is about time people realized patients are patient, normal people who deserve to be treated equally!
God bless you all for your efforts to fight the war on drugs with faith! 🙂
Finally , a light at the end of the tunnel, after 70 plus years of oppression. Finally,the people have a voice to say legalize, let the legalization begin!!
•Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 23,199
* from CDC 2007 data.
Save the children, Vote yes on Prop 19.
Go Cali! So excited about 11/2/10
Wow, was that well written!
I hope the people out there still not sure how to vote on this will see how important a yes vote will be.
Prohibition has not worked. Let’s try a new approach, and I’ll wager we will all be glad we stopped thinking a black market is better than regulation and taxation.
I thought it would be legal in 1975…it’s been a long time coming and I for one, am going to ‘revel’ in it…can’t wait to vote……this is the most important vote I’ve ever made……I’m so excited.
We can do this California! Im a Republican who is not afraid to vote yes on 19, and I know a lot of other Republicans will also be voting yes! The war on drugs is a disgrace!
it is just so logical to end this war on weed and making smokers criminals what are the prohibitionists really afraid of prop 19 is the right thing to do norml and lee thanks for all u have done please calif. vote yes i have been waiting since the 70s i dont care what other people do with thier lives so please prohibitionist let me smoke legally in peace. free country my free choice
This is also great news for people that don’t smoke pot. Pot smokers brains will become slower and non-smokers will stay the same. Please keep smoking!
Won’t happen but best of luck. It would really help us up here in BC who will experience lower crime rates (specifically the gun issues we have here) if California Legalizes.
I was arrested in GA about 3 months ago for possession of .2. Now I have to deal with all this bs that the state is making me do so I won’t be labeled a criminal. For my sake and everyone else who has had to go through the bs that is the war on drugs, please Californians vote yes on prop 19 and pave the way for reform and nation wide legalization.
This comment goes out to John the Stoner X roommate in Dallas, Texas.
You once told me you didn’t vote because it just didn’t matter. You said your votes were pointless.
Well in celebration of your personal lack of liberty, I “forgot” to register to vote in California when I moved to LA. Whoops. Guess I’ll have to miss this amazing chance to make a statement with my “useless vote”. I’ll be voting in absentia in Texas…
I would have voted yes on 19.
Californians, I beseech thee. If for no other reason than to reverse the policies that have in every way crippled the wealth-generating capacity of your fellow citizens, please grow a pair and vote yes on Prop 19. I’ve spent hours and hours watching vids all over Youtube by smokers, cops, judges (Federal and State), media moguls, DEA agents, and simple promulgators of truth. Out of all of it, I heard a few messages over and over again. 1.The drug war as a public and international policy has been an ABJECT FAILURE in it’s stated mandate of ending the use of “illegal” substances. 2. The stated reasons for the drug war are LIES. 3.The true reason for banning cannabis had nothing to do with people getting high, and everything to do with eliminating a plant that threatened the wealth of a very small select group of people (ie owners and execs of wood, oil, cotton companies just to name a few). 4. That the continuation of the drug war has served only to ruin our economy, unnecessarily fouled our environment, and enriched those whose products are pain, misery, bigotry, death, enslavement, ignorance and fear.
Please, do us..nay…do the PLANET a favor, and take the first real step toward positively reshaping our destiny as human beings. Grandiose as that may sound, your passage of Prop 19 will mean no less than that!
-Oz
What kind of overlapping issues will this create for the Federal government though? i don’t understand how this can function. I do hope it works though.
Reason # 20;
PROHIBITION IS BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!
it criminalizes of the persuit of happiness.
Reason # 21;
the longer we wait, the more voters will lose their VOTING RIGHTS by being called ‘felon’.
Reason # 22;
THE CHILDREN WHO DIE, yes, DIE, playing the ‘choking game’ or from ‘huffing’ spray paint, freon, glue, gasoline, etc.
-according to wikipedia, the ‘choking game’ is extremely rare to non-existant among ADULTS.
(adults have MUCH better choices for mood-altering)
EVENTUALLY, when the prohibitionists stop freaking out about adult use, we might see the light and admit that mood altering is a universal desire, and allow parents to supervise their children’s usage of the safest mood altering substance known, cannabis, as it currently is with alcohol.
remember, there was no minimum age for drugs for over 100 years, and in my grandmother’s day, they used paragoric (an opiate) for children, and bayer asprin had heroin, and coca-cola had cocaine, toothache reliver had cocaine, cocaine and opiates were in any drug store, and we currently give children ritalin (amphetemine), and the world didn’t end.
re; at what point do we start attacking prohibitionists for who they really are?
Villains with bad morals, who have no interest in protecting children!
(and greedy POWER ADDICTS, evil scum of the earth)
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!
IF WE DON’T attack back, it is like they say,
‘don’t bring a knife to a gunfight’,
-only without the knife.
they have TOLD LIES ABOUT US FOR YEARS !!
hit them back, with the uncomfortable truth.
I smoked from age 15 to age 35 = 20 years! Then 17 years ago when Federal CDL licensing required testing I gave in and quit rather than lose my means to support my family. So dont tell me smoking marijuana makes anyone irresponsible! BS!! Now At 52 yrs old I see an opportunity for voters in California to right a wrong that has filled our justice system to over capacity with people who otherwise were law abiding citizens of the United States of AMERICA! Drinking government supported ALCOHOL is the real killer and danger to you and I, yet Marijuana has long been demonized as the threat to society in every manner of media since ReeferMadness. I share Christian views and have been baptised in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so, my religious beliefs are not impeded upon by my logical sense of Goodness and Mercy I ask you Californians to lead America by voting YES to Proposition 19 and decriminalize marijuana and maybe just maybe we can outlaw ALCOHOL and make America a safer place to raise our children and grand children without fear of them being runover by Drunk drivers!
it will not be harder for kids to buy lol what makes you think that the people old enough to buy it wont be making more money selling to kids under age because they have better product and the kids will still be wanting it. It will be even more underage selling because now they drug dealers will be able to get it anytime instead of relying on a supplier that may not have any at all.
[Editor’s note: Wrong! Does mass re-selling happen with tobacco and alcohol products from adults to youth? No!
The same will be the case with cannabis post-Prohibition.]
14. To end street-level dealing of marijuana.
This really shouldn’t be under the heading its under…. African Amercians and latinos arn’t the only people who join gangs haha… just sayin
I really hope this passes. I don’t smoke weed but I do understand the benefits of legalizing weed far outweigh the negatives; however,unfortunately, this will not pass.
Just like the proposition for same sex marriage the “moral right” will come out en masse and oppose this if passes. There are a lot of people, even in California, who believe the only reason for weed is to get high. Ant these are the people who regularly vote: senior citizens.
I do hope i am wrong. The whole world is watching.
NEXT: Can we finally lift that embargo so I can legally get Cuban cigars……
I appreciate all those positive aspects cited in the article. The thing that concerns me, leading me to probably vote against the proposition, is the idea of people getting high and then going out and driving a motor vehicle. That’s a realistic concern and I don’t immediately see a solution.
[Editor’s note: Um…people already drive while under the influence of cannabis and keeping Cannabis Prohibition in place in CA for another 80 years will not address the issue any better than treating cannabis with the same regulations and controls like alcohol.
Voting ‘no’ keeps in place a system where police routinely charge drivers while intoxicated on cannabis without being able to scientifically prove impairment. What sense does this unfair system make?
If public safety regarding driving and cannabis is your supposed reason for voting no, you need to re-evaluate your thinking.]
20. It Taste Good.
Mmmm, yummy!
Go California! Get the legalization going for it can hurry up and get here to North Carolina. Vote yes on Prop. 19 and the Entire country will follow like the other 14 states did with the Medical Marijuana!
Actually, in response to your editor’s note…
Just because you make the statement that Jesse is wrong and back that up with little to no evidence of your reasoning, it does not make Jesse wrong.
In other words, just because you “think” that people are not mass reselling tobacco and alcohol to youth does not mean it is not happening. I had to tell you, it does and is currently happening.
I like your article, however your #1 is severely flawed. Just because marijuana will be legalized, it will not stop dealers from selling to youth. If anything, it will increase the selling to youth because of the legal stipulations on selling legitimately to minors. So, do not tell me or anyone else that the risks will stop people from selling in the black market. I mean, plenty sell it now even though it is illegal.
Especially if the taxed price of marijuana is higher than what the dealers can get for it on the black market. This will in no way stop dealers who have been selling for ages. If anything, it will drop their profit margin by a small percentage but still enable them to make a profit and to compete with those selling it legally.
[Editor’s note: Um…according to government data (Monitoring the Future), children can access non-taxed and unregulated cannabis easier than controlled drugs like alcohol and tobacco products. Second, check the FBI UCR…what percentage of those arrested are for re-selling alcohol and tobacco products? Practically zero…yet there are over 800,000 annual cannabis arrests.
Continuing to support Cannabis Prohibition is for continuing America’s longest and most useless war…that serves no good purpose that a little ol’ paper tax stamp and checking an ID can’t largely solve.]
I,wish that the whole U.S. would legalize pot. it’s a no brainier. just have to get out and vote, that’s all we can do. if you don’t vote you can’t bitch.
Do you think Obama will invade Cali with the feds if this thing passes? I’m gonna wait to see what happens until I make the trip.
#21- Because it’s about time. California has had years to make sense of mmj and many cities have failed. Oakland, Berkeley, and others are moving in the right direction. I await the Feds entry into Kalifornia, do they really think they’ll succeed? The state of Oregon has assisted suicide laws in clear violation of Federal law-have they been bothered? No.
Federal banking laws are broken every day in this state, where’s the Fed.
We have had no change in Federal funds since Prop 215.
If you remember Prop 215-there were the same arguments against it. Besides, if people in Kalifornia can’t get pot easily-not cheaply-now, they are stupid.
@[Editor’s note: Wrong! Does mass re-selling happen with tobacco and alcohol products from adults to youth? No!
The same will be the case with cannabis post-Prohibition.]
Actually yes it does. When i was on campus my first semester, there were people selling cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and alcohol to underage students and even when i was younger we always found someone to buy cigarettes or alcohol for us if we payed them a few extra dollars or gave them a few cigs. It will happen, maybe not in a major sense, but it will still happen. You can’t deny it. People under 21 will definitely be getting the same or maybe more weed than before if the dealers start getting their supply legally. You are mental if you don’t think it will happen. I’m not against it at all though because i believe that the age limit should be lowered and everyone should try smoking weed lol the majority of people i know that smoke are under 21
[Editor’s note: Arguing from the specific to the universal is illogical.
While youth can seek out adults to illegally purchase alcohol and tobacco products, is this a major concern for law enforcement or the alcohol/tobacco industries? No, it is not and the criminal justice data reflect this.
Also, if youth want to buy cannabis today they don’t have to go find an adult to make an illegal purchase of cannabis, they do that under Cannabis Prohibition from other youth…which you apparently support if you vote ‘no’ on actually controlling and taxing cannabis products under Prop. 19.
Prohibition equals more youth access, not less…and this is the underlying principle behind the Dutch’s successful 35-year-old ‘coffeeshop’ distribution system for adults who want to purchase cannabis products in a controlled and regulated environment, similar to the purchase of alcohol products.]
Writing a pro-speech over the legalization of Marijuana. This article was very positive and informative. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Genesis 1:29
Come on folks, making a plant illegal? I understand making a man made chemical illegal such cigarettes but a plant???
I am in California and for the sake of all the lives that perished over the prohibition of marijuana and the petty offenses charged over possesion, In the words of Peter Tosh “Legalize It”
re; #39; The thing that concerns me, is people getting high and then going out and driving a motor vehicle.
this happens EVERY DAY with PRESCRIPTION PILLS,
but that must not be any concern…
to a hipocrate !!
California’s PROP. 19 Has more positive affect even in the long run the pros. outweigh the cons. 99 to 1 if you REALLY LOOK AT IT.
“IMAGAINE” as John L. words read. The quality of life will change everyone with indifferances to each indivdual’s taste, it can and will change just imagaine. #52 and counting
if 19 doesnt pass it will be because all the growers and dealers in california were afraid of all the illegal money they will lose out on so they dont care about who gets criminalized with them its all about making untaxed money
Oh god… i hope it doesn’t pass.
if it doesn’t I’m leaving California.
i don’t want anything to do with that stuff anymore.
@Alison: “Oh god… i hope it doesn’t pass.
if it doesn’t I’m leaving California.
i don’t want anything to do with that stuff anymore.”
haha its gonna pass and if you really dont like it that much then gtfo of here and go live your life where you think marijuana is a bad thing
re- “haha its gonna pass and if you really dont like it that much then gtfo of here and go live your life where you think marijuana is a bad thing”
Im guna laugh so fucking hard tomorrow when the polls say No is still like 4 percents ahead then Yes as of today and its not legalized.
your dumbbbb.
Let me get this straight.
Legalizing pot will lessen the load on our courts,it would make pot harder for kids to access,law enforcement would have more time and resources for busting real criminals, it would bring in desperately needed tax income into the public coffers,it would be easier for people that need it for medical reasons to get it,it would eliminate 60% of income to the drug cartels/gangs.
And this is bad?
Legalizing pot makes scene and is way overdo.
Now that I’ve vented I think I’ll roll a fat one and get ready to cook the Thanksgiving turkey
@”Im guna laugh so fucking hard tomorrow when the polls say No is still like 4 percents ahead then Yes as of today and its not legalized.
your dumbbbb.”
i’m gonna laugh so fucking hard when i actually give shit about what you’re saying. I hope when its voted yes that you get so high off of second hand smoke that you actually mean something to society instead of being a worthless piece of shit that no one cares about 🙂 and i’m gonna go smoke now so i can forget “THISGUY” actually exists
Some of us are healthy and not willing to LIE to get an exemption to use an illegal product. WE would rather just purchase a legal product for recreational purposes.