Eric Holder’s announcement that the feds will enforce federal marijuana laws was timed to try and impact the vote. The absurdity of the massively in debt federal government wasting resources on marijuana growing in peoples back yards or closets is just too silly to imagine. What kind of legitimacy will a criminal law have if a majority vote that the activity should no longer be a criminal offense? Legitimacy is critical to criminal law because the police cannot enforce every violation and depend on the citizens obeying the law, kind of a self-enforcement of the law is essential to policing.
Who knows what other tricks [opponents of CA Proposition 19 to tax, regulate and control marijuana] have up their sleeve. I remember when there was a vote on marijuana in Alaska during the Bill Bennett era and the schools made it anti-drug week the week before the vote. When voters got to the polls they saw anti-drug posters made by all the kids lining the hallways as they walked in to vote.
I would like to see an-anti prescription drug week. Prescription drugs are life threatening in many, many cases.
I laugh when I hear the list of “possible side effects.” You can’t be sure the prescription drug will perform as they claim, or make your heath worse or even cause another health problem or even kill you.
I’m concerned about the drugs on the market that control a woman’s menstral cycle. That is just creepy. The government should be busting the pharmaceutical companies.
Marijuana is not a life threatening medicine nor are there any horrible side effects. Who are these opponents and what are they opposing exactly and why. Gateway drug? Any drug can be a gateway drug…..the FDA approved uppers, downers, all produced by the pharmaceutical companies.
If the government were ever to legalize marijuana, some people might buy it and smoke it but I would expect it to be of poor qualtiy, over-priced and most likely sprayed with some poisonous potion. Marijuana homegrown and natural is the way most smokers would want it produced. Legalize marijuana and keep the government out of it!!