Quote Originally Posted by WillyNilly
I'm talking to you, medical growers, dispensaries, illegal growers and the rest who bought the bullshit and voted against your best interests!

You just f*cked yourselves. The failure of 19 just put a target on your backs. All of you.

Liberties, once taken, rarely return. The feds just got themselves a public mandate and complete legal license to go all "Untouchables" on your asses, and they are absolutely going to.

California just told them to. The media will cheer as all those "corrupt" dispensaries that sold weed to people who were willing to pay street prices, though we all know only 5% of them REALLY need it.

I feel sorry for the 5%, who will soon have to use pharmaceuticals, rather than the safer and more effective marijuana products.

I don't feel sorry for you. You're going to go to jail, and I just won't care. You had your chance. You blew it. You f*cked me, you f*cked your fellow citizens, and, not so ironically, you F*CKED YOURSELVES!

You also set the legalization movement back at least a decade, because all you cared about was your little money-making monopoly. Well, kiss it goodbye. The DEA just got a clear signal to f*ck you hard. They've been planning to for a long time.

You just gave them the green light. Mark my words.

Adios, you self-centered losers. Tell Bubba all about how unfair it all is while he anally rapes you.

FU!
Well said, but it's losing by 6%. That's a crushing defeat really; it doesn't sound like much, but propositions don't often do too much worse. I think the majority of the opposition really came from moralizers and ignorant parents overly concerned for their kids. I don't live in California though, so maybe I don't know what the atmosphere was like or how the propaganda from dispensaries affected things...

Since it's so close to being legal in California already, many people kept arguing that this was somehow a step backwards, or that it wasn't so important, or that it needed to be absolutely "perfect". Too many people underestimated how important this was to people in other states, like me. The passage of 19 would have triggered many other states (and then countries) to follow suite. I'm afraid this result has instead dealt a devastating blow to the cause. No doubt it will be legal someday, it's just unfortunate we have to wait a few more... decades...