[OneVike]

There are already way too many problems we who live in California are faced with, we do not need another one.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The results of this are entirely unpredictable, as far as I’m concerned. Some good, some bad.

First, the price of pot will likely decline; whatever taxes are anticipated from the legalized trade in pot are likely to be overstated. It may be true that fewer law enforcement resources will need to be brought to bear upon what would no longer be a crime, but it is really stetching the bounds of credulity to think that police departments would ever admit that.

We’ll have a load more doped-up drivers on the road. This will probably increase insurance rates for everyone.

I just don’t find it credible that anyone can predict the outcome of legalizing the type of pot use this proposition advocates.

[OneVike]

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I put this together as an argument for why Proposition 19 should not be passed in Ca. Prop 19 would legalize marijuana. For those of who live in Ca, maybe it will help you in your efforts to convince your friends or relatives who may be in favor of the initiative as to why they need to vote against it.....

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A disturbing trend that has been consistent through the years is the way adults who smoke marijuana do so with little regard to the effect it has on their children. Is it any wonder that the age of marijuana smokers has consistently trended towards a younger age to the point thatchildren as young as seven years old are now smoking pot. It's my opinion that this is a major reason why 360,000 of the people who checked into drug treatment programs in 2007 reportedly did so to get help with their addiction to marijuana. It does not help those trying to quit that the proponents for the legalization of marijuana are consistently downplaying the dangers of habitually using marijuana.

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[DBrow]

The article misses one point- after it’s taxed, then anyone growing it will eventually be seen as a tax evader.

The revenoo’ers will come around like DEA only dreamed of to catch, fine, and punish these tax dodgers with their gro-lites.

[Nip]

I have to wonder.

According to Regan if you want less of something just tax it!

Will taxing “maryjane” result in less of it? Quite possibly because local politicians will have a vested interest, tax income, to enforce the new laws. The drive for tax money is what lead to the repeal of prohibition in the early 1930s.

Could this approach finally lead to us winning the “war on drugs”? Everything we have tried to date has failed because the locals have no vested interest in enforcing the current laws. Perhaps the drive to get more money, tax based, will change the environment.

[Navy Patriot]

Stoned out, pot smoking, long hair, flea infested, unbathed, peacenik hippies are the most valuable useful idiot voters the Marxist People's Republic of California has.

Dope for Kids Prop 19 will assure the supply.

[Wolfie]

All I got out ot that is that tobacco should be illegal too.

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Maybe the pot growers will block it in the courts.

[Lurker]

legalizing a dangerous product for the specific purpose of collecting more taxes.

You mean like alcohol and tobacco?