I learned a lot about prop 19 on
http://stop19.com/ten-reasons-to-vote-no/
The info on this site is pretty interesting. I read enough to vote no in november.
wow man. you should read the prop! This is all lies and conjecture. It looks like it was written by a 5th grader, and not one of those smart ones on tv!
1. Proposition 19 isn’t really legalization. It only allows possession of up to one ounce of cannabis. Under current California law, an ounce or less of pot isn’t an arrestable offense. And soon this amount will be a simple civil infraction. Prop 19 doesn’t make any improvements to decriminalization or prop 215.
you can have as much as you want at home you just cant travel with more than an oz. No jobsite wizz quizes. No card needed so no giving your name to anybody as a grower and asking the feds to stop by. No using smell, smoke, a joint, a bong by your open window as cause to search you, your car, or your house. I could go on and on.
2. Prop 19 creates several new cannabis related crimes with extremely severe penalties. Don’ t mistakenly pass a joint to a 17 year old, you will be looking at 7 years in state prison, seriously.
same as beer. Is it really so difficult?
3. Prop 19 is solely designed to allow large scale cannabis production by politically connected corporations. Oakland has already granted a license to the Prop 19 Cartel.
that has noting to do with prop 19. big business has big money and that is what got this bill out there. Oakland has made the deal with the devil but that has nothing to do with other communities. Prop 19 is designed to allow the legal use, manufacture, sale, and purchase of Marijuana in order to provide money for the state, access to quality product, bathe California in the BILLONS of cannabusiness tourist dollars, take the black market out of the picture, and keep people who are simple users out of jail
4. Most legal experts agree that Prop 19 is poorly written and will leave police and judges to enforce it at their discretion. For example, consuming cannabis would be illegal in the same "space" as a minor. Police and judges are free to interoperate the word "space" to mean the same room, house, or entire apartment complex.
So in a state where they don't give a shit now if you smoke a little grass they are going to start doing random hose check to make sure daddy went to the backyard before he lit up. Then because it went from the room you are in to the entire house, to the apartment building you are in it must now mean the whole state... that's a really big space! That is what they will do for sure!
5. There is no need to rush into a law that will be difficult to change. There are better full legalization laws, including one set to be on the ballot in 2012.
Yup, all we need is another millionaire to back it. One who doesn't care if he gets anything out of the deal, but would prefer to have people selling pot to whomever because it is just a plant that god made and nobody can tell us what to do with a plant.
6. Prop 19 will lead to the walmartization of the cannabis industry. And unfortunately, this will result in lower quality and fixed prices. Limited competition and government control will allow large scale growers to determine prices and dictate quality standards (or lack thereof).
If the weed sucks nobody will buy legally. If the prices are to high nobody will buy legally. There is a flourishing illegal market now, so they will need to do something to defeat that and it won't be jacking up prices and only allowing shitty weed.
7. Local governments will control the taxation, production, and distribution on cannabis. This is a touchy political issue; most local politicians won’t risk a backlash by allowing dispensaries in their city. This means many people will have to travel long distances or break the law to purchase cannabis.
Or you could grow your own. I think the fear of the taxation is more about them wanting to much, not them wanting nothing. If someplace really doesn't want a peice of the pie just buy like you are now. You are legal to posses, and there is no such thing as "marked buds" They have no way of knowing where you got it if they don't see the transaction. Regardless of what any community says anyone anywhere in the state can grow in a minimum of25 sq ft, have as much at home as they can grow, have up to an ounce on them at any time, gift up to an ounce, and can smoke.
8. Prop 19 will supersede prop 215, adversely affecting medial cannabis users by dictating grow size, possession amount, patient to patient sales, and location of use.
this is not true at all. 215 is unaffected by this prop.
9. Unbiased cannabis activists do NOT support Prop 19. This includes the late Jack Herer and the co-author of prop 215, Dennis Peron.
gotta wonder why though don't you? It isn't from anything here! Jack always envisioned a pot utopia where pot was treated like a garden vegetable. It would be nice but that boat sailed in the 30's when it was labeled a demon weed and people believed it. Pretty cool to see that stigma put to rest with the first possible attempt to legalize it in 80 years, huh?
10. The federal government has decided to not prosecute medical cannabis users. This will not be the case if Prop 19 passes. Many people believe that the passage of Prop 19 will bring an aggressive response from the feds, perhaps putting medical users at risk of losing access to medicine.
Well if that happens they are on their own. Prop 19 specifically states that local law can't do shit to people who follow the law. If the government retaliates against this on a scale big enough to do any damage we will have a civil war on our hands. They aren't that stupid.