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what a load of rubbish. in much the same way, it's high time the heavy taxation and regulations surrounding moonshiners are lifted. it all seems like the laws in both cases protect the big mexican cartels and the big distilling corporations. legalisation without regulation would be ideal and would impose a heavy toll on mexican cartels.
As I said, I agree with you, but, thats not the way the world works. Most people would want it regulated like liquor is. Federally licensed distilleries, that pay a federal tax just to produce it, then state taxes on top of it, and sold far far away from children.
I'd be happy to grow it myself in the back yard, but to get it legal, you've got to appease the large group of people who see Marijuana as bad.
The issue is that its not taxed, and its still in the hands and control of the Mexican cartels without it being legalized.
Exactly right. If Obama and the Fed's could have gotten a portion of CA's tax revenue's from the pot then neither would have said a word. But that's what Washington has always been and will always be about, money.
I would have never thought I would see the day when California would vote down making pot legal.....
Jerry Garcia must be rolling in his grave
you're telling me! as a people we have a very distorted view of what freedom means and we never join the dots. 2nd ammendment types, generally opposed to ending prohibition, never consider that the same arguments made against drugs are the exact same arguments which will eventually see the repeal of the 2nd ammendment.
As usual gop voters don't think about their vote! a yes on 19 would've unified both the left and the right behind the 10th ammendment and that would've given states a huge boost in opposing the healthcare bill!!!!
i personally can't contain my fury with republican voters for essentially shooting themselves in the foot and not forcing off a 10th ammendment showdown with the federal government. MORONS!!!!!!!!
So the Democratic candidates sweep the statewide offices but a statewide initiative that failed is all the Republican's fault?
Who's the moron?
I think pretty much every newspaper in the state along with the vast majority of politicians, both left and right, publicly opposed prop 19. Its a shame, but I think one day pot will be legal and the drug war fans will eventually have to face how stupid pot prohibition is and how damaging it has been to our society.
It's a shame prop 19 wasn't on the ballot in 2008 because with the record high youth vote then it would have sailed through. As it is the old dinosaurs dominated 2010 but their days controlling things are numbered and soon it will be legalized.
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