Holder: Prop 19 irrelevant

[Bobby J]

I don't think it's so much that people are against the legalization, just a bad bill.

I don't understand why the dispensaries are against it since it's already legal for you to grow your own medicinal marijuana, correct?

Is it a bad bill or are those opposed trying to lobby it as a bad bill? I am not sure because I have not read it.

I don't think you can grow your own. You have to use a dispensary. This would explain why they want to keep it illegal. I surely am no expert on this but I do find it very interesting as our current "war on drugs" is a complete disaster. The outcome of this could be interesting for the country.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Pot and the GOP

Is the party of ?Just Say No? morphing into the party of ?Just Say Grow??

Republican power broker Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, points out that legalization can make sense from a conservative perspective because it touches on issues of national security and fiscal prudence. ?First, there is the mess that is Mexico. Narcoterrorism is made possible by our drug prohibition in the U.S. Then there is the cost of incarceration,? he says. Gary Johnson, the Republican former governor of New Mexico and a putative presidential candidate for 2012, says he believes that ?Proposition 19 has the opportunity to be the domino that could bring about rational drug policy nationwide.?

The Conservative Case for Legalizing Pot - Newsweek

 

[Bobby J]

Big local push lately to oppose this bill. A lot of incorrect information regarding nurses coming to work stoned, etc. Its actually quite funny to watch these commercials. I think some of the writers are stoned...