Awesomeness: CA Prop 19 leads 52% to 36%

Looks as is if it is all thanks to a certain new endorsement:

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/07/were_winning_poll_shows_ca_pot_legalization_ahead.php

Pothead Power, people. California's Proposition 19, which would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adults 21 and older, is currently leading by a wide margin among state voters, according to a new poll. The measure is supported by 52 percent of voters, and opposed by only 36 percent.

The new PPP poll (PDF) shows the largest margin of support yet seen from recent polling on Prop 19, reports policy analyst Jon Walker at FireDogLake.

Interestingly, the poll found Prop 19 support among African Americans to be very high, possibly influenced by the California NAACP's recent endorsement of the legalization measure.

Thanks for the thread, BakedAtMileHigh:thumbsup:

Or did he get high and shine it?

Thanks for the link Baked.

I love it!

but don't get complacent. Prop 8 was losing in the polls 2 years ago too, and then the goddamn Mormons parachuted in from Utah with all of their crap.

A massive scare campaign paid for by fascist groups like the multi-billion dollar prison lobby and the Fraternal Order of Police, that have a vested interest in keeping a large prison population. They will aim to scare all of the Mommies and Daddies with young children, and if that campaign is not promptly countered, it will work.

I distinctly remember it being easier to get pot than alcohol when I was underage because alcohol was regulated and no one checked your ID to buy pot. So it could make it harder for the kids to get pot if it's legal and regulated.

Heh heh :smoke:

:smoke:

--imm

We think if Prop 19 passes Venice Beach will overtake Amsterdam.

The rest are just pretenders to the throne

Yes I've been to Amsterdam, 3 times.

I want to go back soon.

"This is very strong shit"

.... than any other common language. How many people from Japan or Argentina or Romania are likely to know Dutch?

Once it's legal in California their pot, sold legally, will find it's way into every state in the union through the black market. Then once the other states see how their consumer dollars are feeding California's coffers they will follow suit and legalize with very few if any exceptions.

We've spent billions of dollars fighting the war on drugs. After 30 years, drugs are even more available all across the US than ever before. The only change is that millions of poor and minority teenagers and young adults are in jail for possessing even a tiny amount of "the devil's weed." Rates of drug addiction haven't gone down, much of it has just switched to "legal" drugs like oxycontin, etc.

The war on drugs has turned out to be nothing but a war against minorities and young people. It is a failure and a scam to funnel money to foreign leaders favorable to Corporate control. Corruption in Columbia is not lower than before we started buying their politicians, far from it.

End this idiotic waste of time, manpower and money. Put those DEA resources to use elsewhere. Spend a fraction of that money on drug treatment and counseling and you'll see a much bigger difference.

Corporate Control."

Amen.

Love,
The Choir
: )

North Dakota is the only state to have its own bank. All money from state and public entities must be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota. Thus, the state keeps the float and not the banksters.

Your state's bank could provide the same services as a private bank but do so without gouging the public. It could issue loans to small business and promote the growth of the state's economy. It could even issue credit cards to citizens without usurious interest rates.

Check it out on the internet tubes and get your state legislature to start one.

---Thanks, Tom Hartman for the "heads up" on this.

they won't oppose this at all on the Federal level. :eyes:

with California's decision, or let the DEA run wild with its federal authority. I am not at all convinced he will do the right thing.

The San Diego area really peaks my interest. This would be icing on the cake.

It simply won't be possible to stop people from driving into California from anywhere else in the continental US to buy pot legally. It may end up forcing legalization, or at a minimum decriminalization, on the rest of the country.

and California can use the business.

Oh, I SO CAN"T WAIT to vote this november.

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Just like we do with cigarettes. The revenue would likely solve California's money troubles, let alone all the savings from scaled back enforcement/jailing of non-violent offenders.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/07/broadus-effect-social-desirability-bias.html

Robopollsters like PPP probably tend to get a truer result on a question like this as opposed to live pollsters, due to the social stigma of admitting being in favor of marijuana legalization.

Whether it passes or not Oakland will be selling legal pot grown locally by the dispensaries.

At best that'd translate to 52-48, and I think it'll be tighter than that.

A curious choice of words, there.

Okay, let us suppose it passes. I suspect the California Supreme Court might be hearing a case next year to strike it down as unconstitutional. But I don't think it will pass, because voter turnout in off-year elections is older and usually pretty low.

Next, Michigan.