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08-08-2010, 04:22 PM #3Senior Member
10 reasons to vote NO on prop #19
Originally Posted by VapedG13
2. Prop 19 creates several new cannabis related crimes with extremely severe penalties. Donâ??t pass a joint to a 17 year old, you will be looking at a max of 7 years in state prison, seriously.
3. Prop 19 is solely designed to allow large scale cannabis production by politically connected corporations. Oakland has already granted a license to the Prop 19 Cartel.
4. Most legal experts agree that Prop 19 is poorly written and will leave police and judges to enforce it at their discretion. For example, consuming cannabis would be illegal in the same "space" as a minor. Police and judges are free to interpret the word "space" to mean the same room, house, or entire apartment complex.
5. There is no need to rush into a law that will be difficult to change. There are better full legalization laws, including one set to be on the ballot in 2012.
6. Prop 19 will lead to the walmartization of the cannabis industry. And unfortunately, this will result in lower quality and fixed prices. Limited competition and government control will allow large scale growers to determine prices and dictate quality standards (or lack thereof).
Currently the prices are determined by the fear of prosecution. Quality standards are determined by the greedy cash-croppers.
7. Local governments will control the taxation, production, and distribution of cannabis. This is a touchy political issue; most local politicians wonâ??t risk a backlash by allowing dispensaries in their city. This means many people will have to travel long distances or break the law to purchase cannabis.
8. Prop 19 will likely supersede prop 215, adversely affecting medical cannabis users by dictating grow size, possession amount, patient to patient sales, and location of use.
9. Unbiased cannabis activists do NOT support Prop 19. This includes the late Jack Herer and the co-author of prop 215, Dennis Peron.
10. The federal government has decided to not prosecute medical cannabis users. This will not be the case if Prop 19 passes. Many people believe that the passage of Prop 19 will bring an aggressive response from the feds, perhaps putting medical users at risk of losing access to medicine
The fed government and police forces are against Prop 19. Voting no means you are siding with them. What the Californians fail to realize is that this has huge implications for the U.S. and the rest of the world, since most of the pressure to make cannabis illegal worldwide (through IMF loans, political and economic pressure) is and has been coming from the U.S.
It may not be perfect, but it's the best thing out there now. The more you wait, the more people end up in jail and have to continue living in fear of the law.
If you don't like the law, just break it! Isn't that what you are doing now anyways?
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