Thad
01-29-2010, 10:18 PM
American drug laws are ruining other countries, have filled the prisons, are providing job security for The Department of Corrections, Drug Enforcement Agency, etc. and if compared side by side with the legal drug pushers products here would have such a short list of side effects in comparison. Its one way out of an idiocy, it doesn't address all the other idiocy's but at least it would take the profit out of the trade.
The people now making the money, the gangs, the third world terrorists at our southern border would have to resort to their criminal urgings with much more riskier activity's to fund their operations and would have less money to do it with and would get busted easier and it would help take the strain away a little bit.
A little bit of good is good, it doesn't fix the whole picture but it fixes a big bit of ugly
The problem with drugs is not so much the drugs as much as it is what one has to go through to get them,
Robbery for drug money would go down, turf wars for the drug profits would go away, The prisons would have to lay off guards... and if someone could not find a better reason to live, then let them die...
You can only eat so much chocolate cake so take the time lag out of it and a person can see the drug thing for what it is...
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Legalized-pot measure almost certain for ballot
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, January 29, 2010
(01-29) 04:00 PST Sacramento - --
Proponents of a state initiative to legalize marijuana said Thursday they have turned in about 700,000 signatures to place the measure on the November ballot, significantly more than required.
If enough signatures are verified and the measure approved by voters, it would become legal for people 21 and older to grow and possess up to an ounce of marijuana under state law. Local jurisdictions could tax and regulate it. Marijuana would continue to be banned outright by federal law.
"This is a historic first step toward ending the cannabis prohibition," said Richard Lee, owner of Oaksterdam University in Oakland and a major backer of the initiative. Lee said he spent about $1 million on the signature gathering effort, and said proponents are planning to raise and spend $10 million for the campaign.
Supporters turned in signatures to county clerks in all 58 counties in the state and, depending on the number of signatures verified through a random sample, the measure could qualify for the ballot in about seven weeks. The initiative needs 433,971 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.
Multiple initiatives to legalize marijuana are circulating in the state, but this is the first submitted for a signature count. A proposal in the Legislature to legalize marijuana passed through a critical committee, but the legislative clock ran out on the bill and it cannot advance further for now.
Leading the campaign effort are Lee and retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray. Gray, who describes himself as conservative, said he has never tried marijuana and only would if a doctor specifically recommended it for him.
"It is really clear that what we're doing with marijuana in our state and country simply is not working," said Gray, who added he is confident the measure would pass in November. An April Field Poll found that 56 percent of state voters supported the idea.
Gray also predicted that legalization would make it more difficult for young people to access marijuana, as it would be regulated and sold only to adults, as opposed to the current system of no regulation.
That is shaping up to be a major point of debate in the campaign. In a video on the Web site of Californians for Drug Free Youth, John Redman, the director of that organization, said, "What we're most concerned about, what we want people to know is, by legalizing marijuana we're going to increase youth use."
Officials at the organization could not be reached Thursday.
E-mail Wyatt Buchanan at [email protected].
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The people now making the money, the gangs, the third world terrorists at our southern border would have to resort to their criminal urgings with much more riskier activity's to fund their operations and would have less money to do it with and would get busted easier and it would help take the strain away a little bit.
A little bit of good is good, it doesn't fix the whole picture but it fixes a big bit of ugly
The problem with drugs is not so much the drugs as much as it is what one has to go through to get them,
Robbery for drug money would go down, turf wars for the drug profits would go away, The prisons would have to lay off guards... and if someone could not find a better reason to live, then let them die...
You can only eat so much chocolate cake so take the time lag out of it and a person can see the drug thing for what it is...
https://imgs.sfgate.com/templates/types/article/graphics/sfgate_printable.gif
Legalized-pot measure almost certain for ballot
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, January 29, 2010
(01-29) 04:00 PST Sacramento - --
Proponents of a state initiative to legalize marijuana said Thursday they have turned in about 700,000 signatures to place the measure on the November ballot, significantly more than required.
If enough signatures are verified and the measure approved by voters, it would become legal for people 21 and older to grow and possess up to an ounce of marijuana under state law. Local jurisdictions could tax and regulate it. Marijuana would continue to be banned outright by federal law.
"This is a historic first step toward ending the cannabis prohibition," said Richard Lee, owner of Oaksterdam University in Oakland and a major backer of the initiative. Lee said he spent about $1 million on the signature gathering effort, and said proponents are planning to raise and spend $10 million for the campaign.
Supporters turned in signatures to county clerks in all 58 counties in the state and, depending on the number of signatures verified through a random sample, the measure could qualify for the ballot in about seven weeks. The initiative needs 433,971 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.
Multiple initiatives to legalize marijuana are circulating in the state, but this is the first submitted for a signature count. A proposal in the Legislature to legalize marijuana passed through a critical committee, but the legislative clock ran out on the bill and it cannot advance further for now.
Leading the campaign effort are Lee and retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray. Gray, who describes himself as conservative, said he has never tried marijuana and only would if a doctor specifically recommended it for him.
"It is really clear that what we're doing with marijuana in our state and country simply is not working," said Gray, who added he is confident the measure would pass in November. An April Field Poll found that 56 percent of state voters supported the idea.
Gray also predicted that legalization would make it more difficult for young people to access marijuana, as it would be regulated and sold only to adults, as opposed to the current system of no regulation.
That is shaping up to be a major point of debate in the campaign. In a video on the Web site of Californians for Drug Free Youth, John Redman, the director of that organization, said, "What we're most concerned about, what we want people to know is, by legalizing marijuana we're going to increase youth use."
Officials at the organization could not be reached Thursday.
E-mail Wyatt Buchanan at [email protected].
Legalized-pot measure almost certain for ballot (https://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/29/BAON1BP4MM.DTL)
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