Ventura County Star, 24 Sep 2010 – No matter if advocates were arguing whether or not to decriminalize marijuana or debating whether or not to go forward with California’s attempts to curb greenhouse gases, the root of all arguments came down to numbers. How many jobs will a proposition create? How many will it destroy? How many people smoke marijuana every day? How much would legalized marijuana cost the healthcare industry? At a Thursday debate on propositions 23 and 19 put on by the Ventura County Civic Alliance and the League of Women Voters of Ventura County at California Lutheran University’s Oxnard facility, passion over the issues ran high as advocates for both sides of the issues tried to persuade the roughly 30 people in the audience to vote their way on Nov. 2.