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US: Prop. 19: California Voters 'Just Say No' to Prop 19
KTLA Wednesday 03 Nov 2010 Proposition 19, a state ballot measure would have allowed adults age 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of pot, to consume it in nonpublic places as long as no children were present and to grow it in 25-square foot private plots. It also would have authorized local governments to permit commercial pot cultivation, manufacturing of cannabis-infused products and the sale and use of marijuana at licensed establishments. Proponents pitched the initiative as a sensible, if historic experiment that would have provided much-needed revenue for the state, dent the drug-related violence in Mexico by causing pot prices to plummet and reduce nonviolent marijuana arrests that they say disproportionately target minority youth. The state branches of the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens endorsed it, along with several retired police chiefs and narcotics officers. At least nine California cities have companion measures on their local ballots that would tax retail marijuana sales if the measure passed. Popular support was hampered by opposition from some medical marijuana activists, growers and providers, who say they fear the system they have created in the 14 years since California became the first state to legalize medical use of marijuana would be taken over by corporations or lose its purpose. Every major newspaper, both political parties, the two candidates for governor and all but a handful of leading politicians also came out against it. Federal officials said they plan to continue enforcing laws making marijuana possession and sales illegal and have not ruled out suing to overturn the California initiative if voters had approve it. http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-prop-19-pot,0,70132.story
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