The Right Way to Legalization
I am not sure how I am going to vote on Proposition 19, the California initiative that purports to legalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis for adults. Of course I am pro-legalization. I am a radical who believes that the Constitution already guarantees us the use of this plant under several clauses including the first, the fourth, the fifth and the 10th amendments, and also as a natural human right that no government can take from us.
As for Prop 19 I am not sure, sometimes I suspect that it is an attempt by some established interests to corner the market legally, which will not be such a good thing. People (perhaps even more than now) will still be thrown in jail over cannabis related “crime.” I am leaning towards “yes” at the moment because I feel that a yes will be at least an incremental step towards full legalization. However I do admit that that argument failed me when the Democrats used it to push through their awful health care “reform.”
Anyway I am not decided yet on 19, I will let you know when I do.
But I do need to point out that there is a way to legalize cannabis the right way. The right way would be to simply eliminate every instance in the California Penal Code that criminalizes the use, possession, or cultivation of marijuana cannabis.
Simple. Clean. Done.
The easiest way to fix it is by eliminating a few laws not passing some more.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
July 20, 2010 at 7:09 pm
We dont want legalization.We want decriminalization.People need to put down the joint for a moment and really start looking at and reading prop 19.its a scam.
July 20, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I guess we are in agreement because if we simply eliminate all the laws against cannabis we are decriminalizing and legalizing at the same time. We are just not creating a whole new bunch of *economic* criminals.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
July 21, 2010 at 11:41 am
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July 21, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Any cannabis user that doesn’t vote for Prop. 19 is nuts. Just plain nuts. This is a no brainer. Its passage will be the biggest defeat for the War on Some Drugs in 70 years.
July 22, 2010 at 8:29 am
Peace be with you Bill
It’s a compromise at best, and the little people never fare compromises well. Everything about their war on drugs depends on pot. That’s a lot of judges, cops, guards, prosecuters, public defenders, case managers, mental health workers, and of course the cookie jar the government’s hand has been caught in on more than one occasion, the black market. They will be looking for ways to redeploy them if this passes.
Think about how tobacco was once a sacred brother to the origional americans, but once the corporations got hold of it, it was turned into a disgusting addiction.
I’m not so sure it will pass though. I see them wheelchairing in dead people to stop this much like they did with prop 8.
I too am undecided on how to vote on this compromise. The ones who get to make the rules if this passes are already making this sound like a pretty shitty deal.
love eternal
tad
July 22, 2010 at 9:25 am
Hi Tad,
Thanks for your comment……the email address I have for you is bouncing maybe you could send me a new one.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
July 22, 2010 at 11:05 am
You don’t have to pay a tax for your backyard veggie garden, why should dope be different?
The enemy has killed countless people, caged people, stolen from people, beat people, pointed weapons at children, and burned down homes in their attempt to rule over people’s ;lives.
Now we are going to turn over the weed business to them?
Vote no until something that can be passed so those fuckers don’t make a dime.