[La Enchiladita]

Of course, the main reason for placing this measure on the CA ballot and for Soros's financial support, is to increase democrap voter turnout. Duh. Nonetheless, public support seems to be declining.

Holder's DOJ has announced they would continue enforcing the federal pot ban even if Prop 19 passes. This raises an interesting policy question: Why then are "sanctuary cities" allowed to defy federal law?

[Persevero]

some laws are more equal than others!

(I oppose Prop 19. But it is obvious that the feds enforce the laws they like and ignore the ones they don’t.)

[nickcarraway]

If this passes, it will be perfectly legal to drive while high. The current testing only test if someone took the drug in the last week or so. The test to see if the drug is currently in the bloodstream uses a machine that is prohibitively expensive. Drug users will be able to damage property and injure people with impunity.

[Wee-Weed Up]

Get all the potheads on their side. Very smart voting block “wink wink”

[Zathras]

When CA promised that raising cigarette taxes would help ballance the budget, everyone with 1/2 a brain said it wouldn’t work.

The only thing taxing pot in CA will do is turn I-5 into the Pot Transport Coridor of the USA w trucks moving Pot into the state and $$$ to WA, OR and Mex.

[Rashputin]

Just put Federal checkpoints on every road leading out of California and check every vehicle with pot sniffing dogs, then refuse to hire anyone from California for a Federal job due to the inability to properly drug test them due to their exposure to second hand pot smoke.

Beyond that, let them go to hell and make sure they do so without a penny of Federal money to aid their law enforcement on any level for any reason, no money at all for any Federal matching funds, no federal money for grants or universities, and so on, and so forth.

California wants to have their cake and eat it too, then eat your cake, my cake, and all he cake they can find. Screw them.

have a nice day

[ansel12]

In no effective way will it be taxed, or be regulated, because pot is not a complex, time consuming to produce, flavorful, difficult to duplicate pleasure that has to be made somewhere a long away by experts, like Scotch, and fine cigars, and Marlboro cigarettes.

Pot is like growing a tomato plant in a pot, or in the backyard, or in the hall closet, a couple of pinches in a piece of newspaper, a couple of puffs, and the deed is done, and unlike tomatoes, a single plant can give you and your social circle all you need for years.

[GonzoGOP]

Anything that speeds up the collapse of California is good for me. If we cannot win against people like Brown and Boxer then it is time to concede that the state is lost. Our goal now must be to treat it like a gangrenous leg and amputate it before it continues to sicken the rest of the country. No bailout. No debt restructuring. If they continue to have sanctuary cities cut off their urban redevelopment funds funds.

California wants to go it own way, as a supporter of states rights I cannot stop them. But if they go their own way, then they must do so by their own devices.

[zeugma]

Thanks for posting. This thread hasn't brought out quite as many nanny-staters as you usually find on this kind of thread.

It will be interesting to see how enthused the feds are in prosecuting every last joint as a federal case. I'm sure the federal judiciary will be thrilled.