California’s Prop. 19, Results a No-Go
On November 2, 2010 California voter’s rejected a recent initiative known as proposition 19, which would have legalized small amounts of recreational marijuana. The state of California is the place where controversial issues receive much attention and this one had the whole U.S. watching. This initiative arrived fourteen years after California decided to approve medical use for marijuana.
The State’s voters disagreed by a small margin on this issue. What this law allowed was for the use of marijuana to be available for any adult over 21 to grow or posses the could have been legal narcotic. The cultivation would have given anybody in the state of California 25 feet to grow. But, this isn’t to say that the federal law would have accepted a yes result. The feds were not going to allow the change and would prosecute anybody going against federal laws.
Gil Kerlikowske, the White House’s drug policy director stated in an e-mail “Today, Californians recognized that legalizing marijuana will not make our citizens healthier, solve California’s budget crisis, or reduce drug related violence in Mexico. The Obama Administration has been clear in its opposition to marijuana legalization because research shows that marijuana use is associated with voluntary treatment admissions for addiction, fatal drugged driving accidents, mental illness, and emergency room admissions.”
Much support had turned out for the measure, but it was just too late by the time any real donations came in. This was until George Soros donated $1 million to the Yes on Proposition 19 campaign. This brought the total amount of donations to $2 million and outweighing the “no” side 10-1. Soon after Snoop Dogg, The Far East Movement, and many other celebrities have came out with their optimistic attitudes for the measure.
Within the ever so popular Facebook realm, the Proposition 19 measure had over 225,000 followers. This is more than any initiative in California has ever amassed. The Proposition was huge among you voters. Many felt they would have turned out to the polls and had their say at the last minute. But, the faulty detail that this measure had within its binds were not as clear as an initiative should be. This is one of the many reasons Proposition 19 was a no-go.
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a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!
Ok wow california. u suck. acohol does so many worse things to the human body than weed, people die way more often from acohol than weed. and have u ever met a violent stoner? i havnt but i have met violent drunks…what was cali thinking. CANNICALI
did you even read the article???? there were massive amounts of support for the legalization.. from Cali!
Are we honestly supposed to believe that CALIFORNIA voted 10-1 to not legalize marijuana? RIGGED.
Learn to read, Disgruntled. The 10-1 was referring to the amount of funding the Pro Prop 18 had compared to the opposition. The article says that the proposition was defeated by a small margin, which we can assume to be much less that 10-1.
I’m pretty sure you have it the other way around.. It was 10-1 TO legalize marijuana..
It simply amazes me that people believe that marijauna taxation would not help the economy. The health risks and addictiveness pale in comparison to that of ALCOHOL AND CIGARRETES. In my opinion, right or wrong, marijuana is only considered a gateway drug because it is still illegal. If it were alcohol that was illegal it would be considered the same sort of gateway to hard drugs, so in that sense its guilty by association. It is and always will be a matter of opinion but the fact I know is that Ive never seen nor heard of families being devastated by marijuana addiction, like Ive seen alcohol addiction take multiple members of my family away from me. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
It’s about time that the government gets off they’re high horse and realize that the people are starting to generally not care what they think anymore. With all of the coruption and bad policies pouring out of Washington what do they expect? They rather make our country fall to pieces by further damaging the economy to pay for their lame ideas and pointless crusades. What they are completely blind to is that the American people are evolving beyond the old days of pointless ideals and policies. What worked in the 40s, the 60s, or even 20 years ago DOES NOT WORK TODAY. It’s proven everytime you turn on the TV and watch the news. The day we have a President in office that ACTUALLY LISTENS TO THE PEOPLE, and not just reports and advisors, will be the day we start to see ACTUAL CHANGE.
AMERICA it’s time to become a country again, NOT A CORPORATION. All the White House cares about nowadays is profit margins and policies to keep their little workers under thumb. Must people are scared that this country is going to explode in violence and revolt against this nonsense…hell, I look forward to it. History has shown us that the best change in a government usually follows anarchy…
Oh Mike, The corporate take over has been coming for decades and proliferated under puppet boy Bushie. He trashed our Constitution and saw to it we went to war for PROFIT. Please get your facts straight.
Now, Thank God, Obama has come in and revealed to you and me the grotesque corruption that caused the collapse of our country and its relations around the world. Bushie boy was some unregulated cowboy making $$$$$ for all his corrupt buddies.
Obama like America wants SOLAR, WIND, Water, Biothermal NOT $$$$$ Big Pharma, Big Insurance and of course Big F ing Oil.
Now really don’t you see? On one hand we have WE THE PEOPLE on the other is heartless, brainless, unethical, immoral Big Corporations who’s only care is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Get it
Obama is so very absolutely on the right track that it makes the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ mongers mad. Oh, maybe now we will find cures for cancer, heart and diabetes??? Corporations want us sick and profitable. My President wants us healed by a medical system that is for health.
How can people be so blind to true virtue. Jesus
Oh Justin catch up. Finally CNN declared alcohol to be the “WORSE” drug. Worse than heroin and crack. And yet we advertise it and push this drug.
Every society on earth has it’s drug to get high on.
Marijuana was made illegal by Dupont who wanted the strongest fiber known to man and by Big Pharma that wanted the exclusive rights on antidepressants.
Marijuana is NOT a “gateway” drug, that opinion was pushed so America would drink more violent alcohol. More $$$ to be made here cause you can’t grow alcohol!
NO ONE has ever died from pot, yet 106,000 die EVERY year from properly used toxic Prescription Drugs. Does your “doctor” tell you that? No, there is NO incentive to heal when there is SO much dirty $$$$ to be made.
So truly it is a matter of money NOT health.
Legalize pot and remove forever the “war” on this beneficial herb.
Then greedy lawyers, the whole penal system, $$$ jails, cops, judges etc will have to concentrate on the real criminals….
Grow pot and grow a peaceful loving world
“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.” – Ben Franklin The human being was indepently concibed by nature, even tho humans are a social being, never will be right for anyone to decide what substances will people’s body contain, I feel like a piece of chess to be told what to put in my body, I dont really feel the freedom is mine, and certainly I dont feel more secure by knowing I am considering a criminal since I like smoking a ball. I am a good person and a joint will not change that, actually makes me feel relaxed and in peace with the world. since I smoke weed, I no longer smoke cigarretes, and my alcohol consume decreased to cero. I rather smoke a ball and chill than drink my stomach out or smoke more than 2000 chemicals in one cigarrete. If this did for me, then definitely I feel has been a good therapy and turned a good personal deistion to smoke weed, not a whole bunch of people in the goverment who doesnt really know who am I or ever met me to tell me what to do with the things i like from life, the fruit from nature.
I guess that 46% were for the measure. Voters in mid-term elections tend to be older and more Republican. And you just KNOW that a lot of stoners showed up at the polls having never voted before and said “like, you mean I’m sposed to have registered already?”
And I thought they said those wonderful voter computers couldn’t be hacked, we can trust them. To bad more people don’t use the paper ballet that leaves physical evidence.