It's a matter of gathering signatures. You must get the signatures of 5-8% of voters. I believe the number last time was ~450k signatures, but I could be wrong.
lol @ that considering your solution is to legalize black market dealing and for-profit grow houses in residential neighborhoods.
What if the No people believe voting for the people stops the gang profits by ruining the price of weed?
And you think the way to do that is to make sure it is not legal to sell cannabis in legal businesses, but instead to allow for unlimited cultivation and possession?
Ah, I see. I guess if you had a bunch of selfless people willing to collect signatures for the cause (for little or no money) then I guess it can be done without $millions$. Then again, we all know that would never happen.
Yep. Medical is legal in Hawaii but no dispensaries. There is pending legislation for dispensaries, but it doesn't look good.
The conversations I have had with people I would describe as average No people here suggested they are willing to entertain new concept.
you're still not getting it, pressing the federal government is exactly what the next step has to be. just as with 215, the feds will come in and try to shut it all down and we must give the state government a reason to fight the dea's goon squads. the tax revenues provided by commercial sales are exactly the carrot that must be dangled in front of sacramento's nose, giving them a reason to go up against washington. those same tax dollars are the incentive for the feds to not try quite so hard to shut it down. we are talking about the potential for billions of dollars in new revenue and that's something these political animals would be hard presses to pass up.
tell me, are those folks picketing liquor stores and mini-marts that sell cigarettes? the point here is to change people's minds about what exactly weed is. we all know that weed isn't some dangerous drug to be feared and loathed. it isn't heroin or oxycontin we're talking about here. the whole idea is to show that a couple of joints are far less dangerous in every conceivable way than that six-pack pa is carting home after work and that can't be done if sales remains in the shadows. we've gone through decriminalization and the people accepted it. we've shown that there are benefits to our happy little herb and the people seem relatively satisfied with its medicinal qualities. now it's just a matter of one more little push to bring one of the world's most inoffensive intoxicants out into the light.
So you think the way to get legalization is to win over the religious right by legalizing black market drug dealing? Yeah.......
Then we would be letting corporate America write cannabis law in California. It would only be legal to purchase cannabis through a pot walmart type store where the buds are treated as manufactured products rather than flowers and grown in big factories.
And you think we can do that by legalizing black market dealing and legalizing commercial grow houses in residential neighborhoods? lol
This is exactly why commerce is a necessity when it comes to legalization. It takes money to fight the feds, not hugs and rainbows. A team of lawyers isn't going to accept good vibes as payment.
There are different types of no voters. Some no voters are just against legalization no matter what, you're never going to get them to vote yes regardless of what the ballot measure looks like.
You're talking to a lot of voters who heard the objections to prop 19. They know the real reasons why prop 19 failed. You can repeat that non-sense all you want, but no one will believe you.
They your understanding is wrong. The religious right is never going to support legalization.
You sound like a small child when you post stuff like that. If you're trying to eliminate the last shred of credibility you have left, well done.
Pretty sweet actually.
