Arcata Eye, 28 Sep 2010 – HUMBOLDT – The November ballot measure that will allow counties to regulate marijuana and gain tax revenue from its sale is opposed by the state association that represents counties. At the Sept. 14 Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Mark Lovelace reported that the board of the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) voted to oppose Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act, the previous week.

The Salinas Californian, 28 Sep 2010 – Retired Officer Makes Rounds in Promoting Proposition19 Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge, 59, circled his horse, Misty, around the intersection of North Main Street and Harden Parkway in Salinas, bearing a sign and T-shirt that earned him hundreds of honks and waves Monday morning. "Ask me why cops say legalize pot," the T-shirt read. "Control & Tax Cannabis, Yes On 19" read the sign.

Ventura County Star, 27 Sep 2010 – Re: the Ventura County Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee’s Sept. 25 commentary "Prop. 19 a bad law for California": Sheriff Bob Brooks and his law enforcement colleagues were either wildly uninformed or intentionally dishonest when they implied that marijuana’s social cost is anywhere near that of alcohol and tobacco, both of which are far more harmful than marijuana.

Contra Costa Times, 26 Sep 2010 – This is very controversial and I’m still trying to decide. Many astute and erudite friends have told me that the idea of recreational marijuana legalization is the epitome of ubiquitous guilessness and unrestrained naivete to the point of astronomical misanthropy. Conversely, I usually agree wholeheartedly with others who insist that pusillamity has no place in the culmination (albeit fraught with much apogee and opposing perigee of thought) of the potentially maelstromic journey to a reasoned decision, obviously bathed in unshaded intellectual sunlight.

Contra Costa Times, 26 Sep 2010 – Oh yes! If things aren’t bad enough already, just what we need is a bunch of people stoned out-of-their-minds driving around on our roads and freeways. So, if this initiative passes, we will have to watch out for both drunks and potheads. I am voting a resounding no on this one. Public safety is the issue here.

Ledger-Enquirer, 26 Sep 2010 – SAN FRANCISCO — California has a long history of defying conventional wisdom on the issue of marijuana, including its embrace of the drug in the 1960s and its landmark medical pot law 14 years ago. So it may not be all that surprising that a November ballot measure to legalize the drug has created some odd alliances and scenarios. Pot growers have opposed it. Some police have favored it. Polls show the public is deeply divided. Only politicians have lined up as expected: Nearly all major party candidates oppose the measure. And hanging over the whole debate is the fact that marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

Contra Costa Times, 26 Sep 2010 – This decades-long experiment in social and cultural self-destruction via police-state neo-prohibition, aka "the war on drugs" must end, especially regarding marijuana. We can try state initiatives like Proposition 19, but better yet, let’s pass legislation properly reclassifying marijuana from schedule one to schedule five, or just declassify it completely.

Contra Costa Times, 26 Sep 2010 – Although medicinal marijuana has been known to relieve pain in many debilitating illnesses, it has been determined to have a negative effect on patients with pre-existing immune deficits. Additional studies strongly suggest that marijuana affects brain function and memory. It was also concluded that those patients will be less capable to fend off respiratory conditions while at the same time attempting to cure those and other diseases.

San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep 2010 – In a dramatic shift of sentiment, nearly half of California’s likely voters now want to legalize marijuana use in the state, according to a new Field Poll. "The numbers have flipped (on Proposition 19) since our July poll," said Mark DiCamillo, the poll’s director. "That’s a major change in the direction of public feelings on legalizing marijuana."

San Fernando Valley Business Journal, 27 Sep 2010 – Workplace: Pot Legalization Causes Jitters for Management. Some business leaders and groups are taking a stand against Proposition 19 which would legalize marijuana for recreational use, saying the state ballot measure could lead to high workers, new demands by cannabis smokers and potential financial losses to businesses.