Tag: Prop 19
Posted on Wed Oct 27, 2010 at 11:19:03 AM EST
Tags: Prop 19, marijuana reform (all tags)
With a $50,000.00 contribution from Larry Zimmer, CEO of Men's Wearhouse, proponents of Prop 19 have been able to air the above ad, featuring former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara , who explains why he, and other law enforcement officers in California, will be voting Yes on Prop 19.
George Soros has donated $1 million for a final GOTV effort and ad campaign. More at the Atlantic.
Firedoglake says the latest poll numbers show a drop in support for Prop 19. They really need to get young voters to turn out and vote.
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Posted on Mon Oct 25, 2010 at 09:42:02 PM EST
Tags: Prop 19, marijuana reform (all tags)
The ACLU wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today about California's Prop 19 that would legalize adult possession of marijuana in the state.
The letter asks Holder and Kerlikowske to stop threatening costly litigation and the deployment of federal drug police to arrest individuals who might use marijuana if the state enacts the proposition, which would allow adults 21 and older to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for their personal use and allow cities and counties to regulate and tax commercial sales. The letter calls such rhetoric "unnecessarily alarmist" and says it does little to foster a balanced discussion of a legitimate policy issue."Proposition 19 would remove state criminal penalties for certain adult marijuana use," says the ACLU's letter. "The new law would not require anyone to do anything in violation of federal law. There would be no positive conflict."
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Posted on Sat Oct 16, 2010 at 05:33:53 PM EST
Tags: marijuana reform, Prop 19 (all tags)
There's a new Rand report, Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico that examines how Prop 19 and marijuana legalization in California might influence drug trafficking organization revenues and the violence in Mexico. The key findings:
- Mexican DTOs' gross revenues from illegally exporting marijuana to wholesalers in the United States is likely less than $2 billion;
- The claim that 60 percent of Mexican DTO gross drug export revenues come from marijuana should not be taken seriously;
- If legalization only affects revenues from supplying marijuana to California, DTO drug export revenue losses would be very small, perhaps 2–4 percent; [More...]
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