I Wear Pants;543169 wrote:I don't doubt that every cop, lawyer, judge, jail employee, prosecutor, etc voted against this in an attempt to keep their jobs.
Pretty distasteful but I bet it's true.
Tell the DEA and their 2.6 billion dollar budget that.like_that;543179 wrote:I doubt it. There are plenty of other issues than finding people with weed.
The Doom thing was anecdotal. I nor anyone was implying that Doom reduced crime. It was simply used as evidence against the proposed California law to restrict video game sales. One of the reasons they want to restrict their sales is they say that it promotes and causes violence. But since the violent game controversy started (when Doom came out) crime has drastically decreased.CenterBHSFan;543190 wrote:haha! Wow
The legalization of Pot would help their deficit thru the taxation of it.tk421;542457 wrote:Yeah, I agree that the pot issue isn't the most important thing to worry about. You'd think California had more important things to focus on, like that pesky huge deficit they are running.
CenterBHSFan;543146 wrote:Not exactly true. It really depends/varies on the person. There's people who take 2 hits and can barely hold their eyes open, much less drive safely. Just like there's people who can't or shouldn't drive after drinking 2 beers.
CenterBHSFan;543155 wrote:Well, I think we should keep in mind, just like Californians are doing, that there are alot of public jobs that depend on pot being illegal.
dwccrew;543374 wrote:The legalization of Pot would help their deficit thru the taxation of it.
Writerbuckeye;542837 wrote:I'd have to see how it was going to be regulated, first. I'm very libertarian when it comes to drug use, etc. I honestly don't think it's government's business -- but I do recognize the public safety factor (driving while stoned, etc.) I lean toward legalization of pot, prostitution, gambling and assorted other victimless crimes...realizing that doing so would also create added government to provide a watchdog (the necessary downside).
I Wear Pants;543307 wrote:Actually it doesn't really matter for the people of California. California has already decriminalized pot to the point that you can possess less than one ounce without any criminal violations. You get a civil violation which doesn't even require a court appearance. Sort of like a parking ticket.
Prop 19 would have been beneficial to the rest of us as it'd be easier to legalize in other states because of it.
People are allowed to grow everything else at home. But we don't because we are lazy.tk421;543376 wrote:I don't see how this Prop. would have helped California at all with taxes because it allowed people to grow it at home.