Daily Nexus, 18 Oct 2010 – ATTENTION: If you have changed houses since your last time voting, you must re-register today, or else it might be your fault if weed doesn’t become legal in two weeks. It’s a piece of cake: Google "California election" and use the top Web site to fill out your name, then print it and mail it. If you bring it to the Daily Nexus office before 4:20 p.m., I’ll even give you a stamp and mail it for you. I won’t presume to tell you who to choose for governor or congressman, and I won’t claim to have enough information to make a public stand for any of the ballot propositions, except for one. Proposition 19 is a wise financial decision for the state of California, and it is every American’s right to challenge the federal authority on drug policy when its science is clearly flawed. As a corollary, Measure T – a total ban on marijuana dispensaries within the city of Santa Barbara – is a silly piece of legislation that represents no rational economic viewpoint, but only the hopeless will of mean old people to control the supreme glory of the free market.
US CA: Edu: Column: Prop 19 Puts the Pipe (and the Power) in Your Hands
US CA: Edu: OPED: Yes We Can: The Cannabis Chronicles
Daily Nexus, 04 Oct 2010 – Last Thursday, Governor Schwarzenegger decriminalized marijuana. Somewhere in the chronic haze of my mind, I might have expected this to happen: The Terminator saves the kid from robots trying to take away his civil liberties — or something like that. He was sent with a mission from the future, you know. After Google Earth becomes SkyNet and takes over operational command of the United States military, people are definitely going to want to smoke weed. Now they can without fear of arrest. Thanks, Arnold! I can say I’ve never been more proud of you in your term as Governor of California. Now on to the other $25 billion in the state budget shortfall… Of course, this act changes little within the letter of the law, with the fine for possessing up to an ounce of cannabis capped at $100, but now as a civil rather than criminal offense, there will be no jury trial for defendants. I suppose you will simply pay the fine if caught, and the state will save big on lawyer fees. By virtue of the fact that people now caught possessing weed for their own enjoyment will no longer receive arrest records, I am glad for this change of rules.
