Sacramento Bee, 22 Oct 2010 – For months, proponents of California’s Proposition 19 marijuana initiative hyped the local tax benefits of legalizing pot for recreational use. Now, as voters in Sacramento and other cities consider companion ballot measures to impose taxes on the retail pot businesses that could open if Proposition 19 passes, the promised revenues may be in jeopardy.

Sacramento Bee, 22 Oct 2010 – For months, proponents of California’s Proposition 19 marijuana initiative hyped the local tax benefits of legalizing pot for recreational use. Now, as voters in Sacramento and other cities consider companion ballot measures to impose taxes on the retail pot businesses that could open if Proposition 19 passes, the promised revenues may be in jeopardy.

Bellingham Herald, 13 Oct 2010 – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Backers of California’s Proposition 19 call it a landmark challenge to America’s war on drugs. But passage of the initiative to legalize pot for recreational use may open up a legal war between California and the federal government. Some fear a renewed surge of federal raids – similar to actions that shut down medical pot shops, targeted suppliers and doctors after California voters passed Proposition 215, its medical marijuana law in 1996.

The Fresno Bee, 03 Oct 2010 – Should California Legalize Marijuana Beyond Current Medical Use to Permit All Adults 21 and Over to Use and Possess Pot? Fourteen years ago, when California voters passed Proposition 215 the "Compassionate Use Act," legalizing marijuana for medical use, they opened the door to a thriving marijuana economy in the Golden State. California cities brim with dispensaries serving marijuana users who have physicians’ recommendations to treat their ailments with pot. Proposition 19 would permit marijuana for recreational use and likely significantly expand the legal marijuana market in a state whose annual marijuana crop legal and illicit is valued at nearly $14 billion. California would become the first state in the nation to legalize pot, though it would still be at odds with federal law.

Sacramento Bee, 26 Sep 2010 – California voters are leaning toward making the Golden State the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In a new Field Poll of likely voters for the Nov. 2 election, the Proposition 19 marijuana initiative leads by a 49 percent to 42 percent margin.

Sacramento Bee, 25 Sep 2010 – The state Board of Equalization, which last year famously declared that legalizing marijuana could generate $1.4 billion in new tax revenues for California state coffers, has an updated analysis out for Proposition 19, the November ballot measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use. This time, the BOE says it is clueless on what legal weed can bring in.

The Fresno Bee, 25 Sep 2010 – The state Board of Equalization, which last year famously declared that legalizing marijuana could generate $1.4 billion in new tax revenues for California state coffers, has an updated analysis out for Proposition 19, the November ballot measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use. This time, the BOE says it is clueless on what legal weed can bring in.