Quote Originally Posted by VapedG13
Ten Reasons to Vote No
1. Proposition 19 isnâ??t really legalization. It only allows possession of up to one ounce of cannabis. Under current California law, an ounce or less of pot isnâ??t an arrestable offense. And soon this amount will be a simple civil infraction. Prop 19 doesnâ??t make any improvements to decriminalization or prop 215.
This is for possession away from the grow area. The prop clearly states that you are allowed to possess as much cannabis at the grow site that can actually be produced by the grow.

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.
Shouldn't be doing that anyways.

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.
What about the 5x5 grow area for personal?

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.
Whatever happened to a trial by jury? Apartment complex? C'mon now...

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.
Yup, no hurry. Only been waiting for nearly a century, what's a couple more years and a couple thousand more people in jail?

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).
Well that's capitalism for you. Anyone who thinks that legalization can come without bigger players taking their piece of the pie is a fool and doesn't understand the U.S. economy.

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.
Instead of buying it, just grow your own.

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.
"Likely"? Which genius lawyer came up with this? The prop explicitly states that it cannot affect prop 215.

9. Unbiased cannabis activists do NOT support Prop 19. This includes the late Jack Herer and the co-author of prop 215, Dennis Peron.
Dennis was all about medical. Jack (R.I.P) didn't want the government to have any hand in cannabis regulation. This is impossible.

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 feds want to start a war over states' rights? That would bring a huge conflict going beyond medical and recreational smokers. It would be total chaos.

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?