Proposition 19

[Jimmy 952]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-dershowitz-20100728,0,527914.story

Yes it gonna happen....

[Jimmy 952]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/marijuana/

[anguscr 290]

It will be one step forward, but I was wondering about the Federal Authorities & how they'll take it... hope it passes!!!

[Levente 467]

If i'm right, in the us, each state has the right to bring in new regulations on its territory concerning such toppics like gun posession, and marihuana. So fingers crossed, it will go through!! People are adult enough over there, and been used to it for long enough to tolerate, and see prefer the benefits of marihuana than the downsides! As i know, almost 30% of the population use more or less frequently ganja on the west coast, which means, that if all they joined an organization for the legalization, it would have more members than the National Rifle Association! I'm saying, whatever the journalists say, the decriminalization of marihuana would add more to the world peace and human rights, than any gun association could ever do together! I hope the time of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which is the base of the anti-marihuana laws across the world, is over, and politicans finally realize that weed mustn't be treated like heroin!

In weed we trust!!

[Mojo 0]

Wich this was in normay,but i think they are on their way to decriminalaise in short time,its a beggining for us in the north:)

That means if i get cought by the police growing when its decriminalised,i will not get jail or ect. But it will be considered if i need a "program" for drug addictive,hell yeah if i still can grow my mojo

[anguscr 290]

Fuzzy... Great to hear that's dicriminalize in Portugal, a big fine is much, much better than the alternative jail... very happy for all the people in Portugal!!!!

[Jay Ryan 6]

Prop 19 will be a huge step forward, but there will still be a lot of issues, mainly it will still be against the law. In the States, the federal government has supremecy in regard to laws. So, if the federal government makes something illegal, no state can make it legal. But, if the federal government makes something legal, or has no opinion of something the states can make it illegal.

As long as Obama is president we (in Cali) don't have a lot to worry about in regard to medical, but who knows what the feds will do if/when we pass prop19. I can see legal challenges for at least the first year followed by other states following Cali, but in the end, unless we change the federal laws, big money interstate transport/sales will continue to stay out of the light of day.

It's a war that will be won on tiny step at a time...

[Guest superbluehaze]

something of interest, my fellow strain hunters:

Just Say Now Responds To DEA Hysteria On Prop 19

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Nine former DEA heads held a press conference this morning to promote their letter to Eric Holder, asking the Justice Department to intervene and challenge Prop 19 if it passes. They claim that since the Justice Department moved so quickly to oppose the Arizona immigration law, it’s their obligation to do the same here.

The fact is that the DEA ignored Eric Holder’s directive, issued last year, to respect state medical marijuana laws. Just last week, they raided 5 medical marijuana centers in Las Vegas. The DEA will do what it wants, regardless of what Eric Holder does, and these people know it. This looks like nothing so much as a blatantly political attempt to needle Holder (and Obama) and throw some gasoline on the already volatile Arizona situation.

The fact is that these 9 people shoulder a huge chunk of the blame for the utter and complete failure of the war on drugs that has made the situation on the Arizona border so critical. It’s quite shameless that they’d make things even worse by demagoguing the immigration law in this fashion, but it’s symptomatic of a wasteful and counterproductive bureaucracy trying to protect its power — and its enormous budget.

The letter says:

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[W]e note that the Department of Justice acted quickly to assert the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in its recent suit to declare null and void certain provisions of an immigration bill passed by the state of Arizona. We would expect the Department of Justice to act just as swiftly and for the same reason to uphold the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the preemption provision of the CSA to prevent Proposition 19 from becoming law.

Bruce Fein, member of the Just Say Now advisory committee who served in the Justice Department as Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan, responds:

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Nothing in the Constitution requires a state to prohibit as a matter of state law and prosecution what the federal government has chosen to prohibit as a matter of federal law and prosecution. Proposition 19 leaves the power of the federal government to enforce federal prohibitions on marijuana trafficking or use unimpaired. It would be flagrantly unconstitutional for Congress to attempt to force states to enact laws prohibiting under state law conduct that Congress has prohibited under federal law! DEA needs remedial education on the Constitution.

Says Aaron Houston, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and co-founder of the Just Say Now campaign: “This is the same ‘Reefer Madness’ rhetoric they used to fight against medical marijuana. We’re talking about making sure they could continue to arrest sick and dying people who used to medical marijuana. It’s the exact same argument we heard then, that the sky would fall, but it hasn’t.”

Over 28,000 people have been killed in the war between the Mexican government and the drug cartels. Last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the drug violence in Mexico as an “insurgency.”

Mexico’s National Security Adviser Alejandro Poire responded, saying that the drug cartels are “nourished by the enormous, gigantic demand for drugs in the United States.” That demand is something that the nine DEA chiefs, and their failed drug war, have done nothing to diminish.

NewsHawk: MedicalNeed: 420 MAGAZINE

Source: FDL Action

Author: Jane Hamsher

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happy growing,

john

[Guest superbluehaze]

Hi Tokage,

I would love to mate, but I got into trouble at 420mag site for promoting strainhunters and posting the above. I posted my grow videos there and a link back to my post on regeneration here. Strain hunters is a sponser there, but they do not seem to like having a link back here or from there to here.

They were nice about it, but I do not want to be kicked out of 420, so if the admin there agrees I would love too, as that is where I got the above. Though I was promoting Strainhunters through my videos(the same ones I posted here, I was also promoting 420 mag, so we will see.

happy growing,

john

[Jimmy 952]

http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/

http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/19/

//Jimmy

[tono420blaze 1]

Take a look a this post I read today, it really is motivational.

http://cannabispost.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/let-da-feds-in-and-bust-everyone-please/