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Hot Air Pot legalization initiative leads by 10 in CA
HA's Ed doing his usual bang up job...
For those who have never tried pot, here is a video of the Hulk fighting a bear...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nFsKUSK9M]YouTube - The Incredible Hulk fights a Grizzly Bear[/ame]
HA's Ed doing his usual bang up job...
Allahpundit reviewed the two major races from the latest Survey USA poll in California, but the poll also included data on a referendum that may put California back in the forefront of drug policy. Years ago, Californians passed one of the first medical-marijuana initiatives that created a market for the federally-banned substance as long as one could get a medical referral that claimed to treat symptoms at a doctors wide discretion. Now Californians have a chance to end the masquerade and just legalize marijuana and Survey USA shows the ballot measure leading by ten points:
Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana, and allow marijuana to be regulated and taxed in California, continues to be supported narrowly, passing today 50% to 40%, unchanged from 1 month ago. Ballot measures are difficult to poll; opposition to many ballot measures increases as election day approaches. Voter reaction to Proposition 19 can be expected to shift as both sides begin to advertise the pros and cons of passage. There is offsetting movement among demographic groups.
The big questions are these: Did voters pass 215 in 1996 under the delusion that they were creating a tightly-controlled system that allowed only the very ill to find relief? Or was everyone in on the joke? If its the latter, then Survey USAs prediction will be accurate, and possibly even understating its support after 14 years of de facto legalization has produced few problems. If its the former, this will be closer but in California, theyll probably pass it anyway.
And they should, if only for the waste of resources states and the federal government burn in enforcing the drug war on a non-toxic intoxicant that does less harm than alcohol overall. If California wants to cut some of its budget and it desperately needs to do so this isnt a panacea, but alleviating an expensive burden from law enforcement is one place to start.
For those who have never tried pot, here is a video of the Hulk fighting a bear...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nFsKUSK9M]YouTube - The Incredible Hulk fights a Grizzly Bear[/ame]