In Other Results, Cooley and Newsom Hold Slim Leads for Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor.
California’s marijuana legalization ballot initiative, Proposition 19, is trailing badly, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll, which found likely voters opposing it 51% to 39%.
In the race for attorney general, Republican Steve Cooley holds a […]

Another federal-state showdown is brewing, but this one has nothing to do with immigrants. It has to do with pot. Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and others in the political establishment are trying to scare them […]

The nation’s drug czar traveled to California to highlight his contention that legalizing marijuana is not the answer to a drug war he acknowledged has not succeeded. Instead, Gil Kerlikowske stressed what he called a middle way: increased prevention and treatment.
Kerlikowske’s stated reason for the drop-in visit Wednesday was an […]

Would Prop. 19 Cut Crime And Boost Economy, Or Harm Public Safety, Health
In his white cowboy hat, bluejeans and boots, John Pinches might seem an unlikely champion for the legalization of marijuana.
Pinches, a Mendocino County rancher, businessman, grandfather and two-term county supervisor who once called himself an “old hillbilly,” has no personal taste for the […]

Marijuana prompted several men to strong-arm their way into a west Santa Rosa home last week and tie up residents with duct tape. It lured a pair into an illicit garden in Round Valley where they were shot dead by its tenders.
It led an unknown killer to shoot a 31-year-old father in […]

Criminal laws are not an effective way to control marijuana; removing criminal penalties does not lead to increased use; decriminalization creates savings in law enforcement.
The great divide between politicians and the people is showing itself in California where polls show the voters support Proposition 19 and where the mainstream politicians mostly oppose it.
To many […]

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said on Friday that the voters don’t matter. His deputies’ enforcement of marijuana laws would not change even if voters approved Proposition 19, which would legalize cannabis in California, on November 2, according to the Sheriff.
“Proposition 19 is not going to pass, even if it passes,” Baca said in […]

The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it would aggressively prosecute marijuana laws in California even if state voters approve an initiative legalizing the drug. The announcement by Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general, was the latest reminder of how much of the establishment has lined up against a […]

Dispensary Advocates and Law Enforcement Officials Agree
Californians approved the state’s medical-marijuana law, Proposition 215, on Nov. 5, 1996. That’s back when President Clinton was serving his first term in the White House and Friends was just a couple of years into its decade-long run on NBC.
Californians made history when they passed the […]

My beloved EMU students, I write to you out of desperation to beckon you to action. We as a nation have yet again become afflicted with “reefer madness.” I speak, of course, of the widespread use and gradual legalization of cannabis.
This epidemic was experienced first during the late 1960s. […]