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Hello Prop. 19ers!
There are 61 Days left in this chapter of the struggle.

So now marijuana is a threat to marriage?--BLOG
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/so-now-marijuana-is-a-threat-to-marriage

Now anyone who is familiar with Calvina already knows of her propensity toward lunacy -- Here's just one example, "Truly sick people who deserve legitimate medical treatment have been duped into believing that marijuana will help them, while in reality it is hurting them." -- but this time, in her vitriol against California's Prop. 19, she really outdoes herself, arguing that regulating the adult use of cannabis is a threat to... marriage!

California's Prop. 19--Poll Tracking--Polltracker/Talking Points Memo

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/2010-ca-prop-19

Check out this trend....

The battle over Prop. 19--Socialist Worker
http://socialistworker.org/2010/09/01/battle-over-proposition-19

ON NOVEMBER 2, Proposition 19--the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010--will be on the ballot in California. If it passes, it will allow adults 21 years or older to possess, cultivate or transport marijuana for personal use.

Support Growing for Prop. 19--Pantagraph

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_84b6634c-b551-11df-9515-001cc4c002e0.html

In November, the voters of California get to vote on Proposition 19 to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana. The polls say the proposition has a good chance of passing, though the last weeks before the election will be crucial to how this turns out.

Legalize marijuana to stop cartel violence--Gary Johnson--Las Cruces Sun--NM

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-opinion/ci_15950679

There were 72 bodies found on a ranch 90 miles south of the Texas border -- obvious victims of a drug cartel massacre. Bullets have been hitting public buildings in El Paso and the Washington Post is reporting that at least $20 billion a year in cash is being smuggled across the U. S. border each year. What is it going to take to convince the federal government that current drug policies are not working? The fact is that the current drug laws are contributing to an all-out war on our southern border - all in the name of a modern-day prohibition that is no more logical or realistic than the one we abandoned 75 years ago?

Tony Newman and Stephen Gutwillig--Prop. 19 already a winner

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_15929419?source=most_viewed

Californians have a chance to make history in November when they vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana for adults over 21. Polls collectively show voters split but leaning toward this momentous stand against failed marijuana prohibition. Ten weeks from Election Day, it's clear how much Prop. 19 has already accomplished for the drug policy reform movement.

Who could kill Prop. 19?

http://informant.kalwnews.org/2010/09/marijuana-wednesday-who-could-kill-proposition-19/

Polls are showing Proposition 19, the ballot measure that if passed, would legalize recreational marijuana in California, on the up and up. So what could stop it now? Rolling Stone's upcoming issue includes a feature by Ari Berman, "Just Say Now," on the marijuana legalization debate underway in California. And the piece contains some interesting predictions on how Proposition 19 will play out politically. Specifically, the piece mentions three things that might kill the measure:

Baca: MMJ Operations are being taken over by criminals...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Marijuana-Collectives-Are-Being-Taken-Over-by-Criminals-Baca-Says-102011863.html

"The medicinal marijuana program that voters authorized years ago has been hijacked by underground drug dealing criminals who are resorting to violence in order to control their piece of the action," Baca said.

'Gateway' Fears unfounded


Long-held fears that the use of marijuana will lead to harder drugs are overblown, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/09/02/con-marijuana-gateway.html#ixzz0yO9skrr6

Recent Headlines



Reddit defies corporate masters over the publication of Prop. 19 ads--BLOG
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/08/reddit_defies_parent_company_c.html

Social news site Reddit has made it perfectly clear that it isn't seeing eye to eye with parent company Condé Nast.

Cannabis may easy chronic nerve pain--Bloomberg Business Weekly
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/642584.html

(HealthDay News) -- Smoking cannabis, also known as marijuana, reduced pain in patients with nerve pain stemming from injuries or surgical complications, new research shows.

Prop. 19 Battle Escalates--BLOG
http://caivn.org/article/2010/08/30/proposition-19-battle-escalates

Over the past week, two high-profile signs of opposition to Proposition 19 have cropped up - signs that have also engendered a fierce and passionate backlash from the proponents of the measure. So fierce is this backlash, In fact, that it is a fair question to ask whether the backlash could do more to advance the case for the measure than the original opposition measures did to retard that case.

Facebook Takes heat for banning pro-legalization ads--Inside Bay Area

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_15919787

The national Libertarian Party today joined the chorus of those complaining that Facebook has banned ads advocating for marijuana legalization.

The New Marijuana Middle Class

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-donahue/the-new-marijuana-middle-_b_697459.html

Marijuana brings an estimated $14 billion a year to California. That number is enough to inspire awe, drool even, when thinking of the slice that could be devoured by the state's hungry coffers. Add to that number the money saved on enforcing prohibition. In this context, Prop 19, California's initiative to tax and regulate marijuana for recreational use, sounds like a no-brainer. However, if it passes, the RAND Drug Policy Research Center projects an 80% price drop. In that case, projected tax revenues will be pipe dreams, and only those who produce mass quantities will be able to stay in business. Most of the cannabis small business owners I talked to at the recent Hemp Con in San Jose are just that, small business owners of the sort who are supposed to be rebuilding our economy.

The only thing drug cartels fear is legalization--Huffington Post


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-only-thing-drug-gangs_b_695264.html

Like Capone, the drug gangs love the policy of prohibition. Michael Levine, who had a thirty year career as one of America's most distinguished federal narcotics agents, penetrated to the very top of la Mafia Cruenza, one of the biggest drug-dealing gangs in the world in the 1980s. Its leaders told him "that not only did they not fear our war on drugs, they actually counted on it... On one undercover tape-recorded conversation, a top cartel chief, Jorge Roman, expressed his gratitude for the drug war, calling it 'a sham put on the American tax-payer' that was 'actually good for business'.

HempCon Blasted as a MMJ recommendation mill--East Bay Express


http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2010/08/26/hempcon-blasted-for-cheap-medical-pot-doctoring

Doctors, patients, and industry are bashing the organizers of HempCon, which took place August 6-8 in San Jose, for running a de facto medical marijuana prescription mill out of the trade show. Eyewitnesses noted long lines of young adults without medical records quickly processed by seven or eight doctors for $40 per person.

California Considers legalising cannabis--UK--Channel 4

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/americas/california+considers+legalising+cannabis/3753677

As California considers legalising cannabis by voting for Proposition 19 in November, which will allow the state to "regulate, control and tax cannabis", Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith meets the "cannabis entrepreneurs" who are ready to "cash in."

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/tossed-salad-dragonfly-de-la-luz-on-marijuana-laws

Yet more Tossed SALAD (Stoners Against Legalization Article of the Day), this time from "professional stoner" Dragonfly de la Luz.

Miss de la Luz writes a blog called "Stoners Against the Prop. 19 Tax Cannabis Initiative".  She's been telling everybody how she's got hers (Prop 215) and Prop 19 would ruin it.  Yes, her thesis is that Prop 19 legalizing a small garden and all its harvest, possession of an ounce away from the garden, and local option for commercial regulation of cannabis for 100% of the 3 million adults who smoke pot in California will somehow lead to some of the 10%-20% of Californians smoking pot under Prop 215 going to jail.

Contra Costa Panel comes down against prop. 19

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15895116?nclick_check=1

MARTINEZ -- A county alcohol and drug advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Contra Costa County oppose Proposition 19, a November ballot measure that would legalize recreational use of marijuana in California.

Drug Czars blast Prop. 19--HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/clinton-and-bush-drug-cza_n_693935.html

Six directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy over the previous 3 administrations penned a cooperative op-ed Wednesday in opposition to California's Proposition 19 ballot proposal to legalize marijuana.
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/11522-santos-seeks-united-stance-on-drug-legalization.html

The Colombian president announced that he will seek to form a united stance with Mexico and Peru on the legalization issue if the U.S. state of California votes to legalize marijuana consumption in a referendum scheduled for November.

University bans MMJ use--GW Hatchet--Washington DC

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2010/08/26/News/University.Bans.Medical.Marijuana.On.Campus-3925374.shtml

Students who are prescribed marijuana under the new D.C. law permitting the drug for medicinal use will not be able to possess or use the drug on campus under the current George Washington student conduct policies, a University official said in August.