California: Marijuana Legalization Headed for November Ballot

January 29th, 2010: Voters in California will likely decide this November whether or not to legalize marijuana, after legalization activists handed in far more than the necessary number of petition signatures to get the measure onto the ballot.
Organizers of the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 filed some 700,000 petition signatures with county clerks around the state. The amount of signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot is about 433,000, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, so the measure is all but certain to be on the ballot in November.
If California voters approve, it will be the most comprehensive reform of marijuana laws ever undertaken in the United States. While some states, such as Oregon, have relatively lax penalties for possession, no state has attempted to regulate and tax the herb before.
The measures chances are good: A poll taken last April found that 56 percent of Californians want to see the herb legalized and taxed.

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[pendejadafcc]

It's about time after getting jailed like 5 times not to mention fines and permanent records

[sixxdegree]

don't just talk please vote!!!

[RainK9]

This is not the right way of doing things! there is no fucking reason to tax this.

Idiots, fight for what is free! 

There is NO reason to tax air, so why tax a damn plant!!

Just fucking legalized it!

[trecoolfreak20]

lol wow America really blows hard. "yeah so in order to legalize something god made on this planet, 1:we got to have people vote for it, and 2: we got to tax it" why? tell me why because the government just wants our money and they don't care how.

[AJDdude]

@wadscardear thats why you dont buy it from the stores you grow it yourself or get it from your regular dealer dont buy that shit from a store its gonna be shit like tobbacco cigarettes nicotine and you dont know what the hell theyre puttin in there.

[skatefallsmash1]

@pendejadafcc do you think you can then remove those from your record. i hope so

[2unearth]

I think you have it backwards.

[wadscardear]

@2unearth THINK THIS THROUGH! legalizing it keeps gov in the loop and brings the irs into it. it will commercialize & bastardize it. theyll regulate the potency, manipulate distribution (atf) , another form of revenues for cops, ...

decriminalization takes away ALL penalties & regulations.

[one88way88]

@Swinging8thsman

21

[aone1948]

@BobMarleyLurks IKNOW HUH?

[BobMarleyLurks]

@zeecee1

True that.

But it would get it out of the hands of the mexican cartels and kids.