OK look at the map. all the wet coast states have the most liberal MMJ laws ,Denver,Alaska etc..

geuss what , It is spreading like a weed!

The feds cant stop this , they would be declaring war on its own people , Oh wait thats the drug war LOL

Every newspaper in the states has “eradication” and “task force” stories , It never ends , and this is not
Cali – Ore -chronic this is some cartel weed by the bail
millions of pounds
supply and demand ,people want cannabis and people will supply and profit
that is the capitalist way . and that money makes its way back into the economy – Of mexico

OK just to make myself clear Medical marijuana does not come from mexico YET
It only a matter of time with genetics.

I have grown my own medicine and I grew my own tabacco
neither was easy and either turned out like crap
so it easier to pay the $5.40 for tabacco

TAXES are so high on tabacco it has created a huge black market in cigarettes

MMJ has created a huge market , jobs, opportunity’s
Alot of people making a living

Oakland Ca has to be the most friendly MJ citys in Ca
They dont get raided and the city gets its kitty

The prison system is another nightmare
how many people are serving prison terms for cultivating

how much does this cost/who pays
more and more arrests every year

put the vote to the people
you would be surprised to see how many people will come out for this
prop19 wont stop the “war on drugs” but it will help to debunk alot of the crap they spew

these old soldiers still trying to battle Adam and Eve
that decision ha been answered long ago

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The Wire: Best. series. ever. You will never watch a typical police procedural again (e.g. Dick Wolf’s Law and Order series) or reality show (e.g., Cops) without thinking the “one sided view from the police side” with the cops and prosecutors being heroes and the criminals cartoon scumbag villains is not some ancient Hollywood trope, as cliched as Jack Webb’s “Dragnet”, the progenitor of the TV police procedural.

I supported Obama during the primaries because of three things: His speech at Cooper Union on economics (YouTube) which promised a vigorous Keynsian stimulus to the recession, that Shepard Fairey did his poster and that he said his favorite TV show was The Wire. I thought: “This guy gets it: he’s bright, hip (!) not a typical pol and understands the challenges we face as a people moving away from a status quo that does not meet today’s challenges.

As to what season of The Wire is best: I’d agree it’s Season 4, which of course builds on the earlier seasons, particularly Season 1 where the main characters from the high and low underworld are developed: the Barksdales, Stringer Bell, Proposition Joe and then, in season 4, seen through the eyes of the third grade “corner kids” at the bottom of the food chain who serve as lookouts and, in the case of Snoop, an adolescent girl and assistant hit man to an enforcer, who one reviewer said was one of the most chilling TV villains ever.

If you watched the show, this needs no further explanation. If it doesn’t, rent seasons one and four and watch them in order to get the story. (You can catch up and add seasons 2, 3 and 5 later if you get into the story and want to see “other” relationships to the white lower class unions at the shore, state education politics and newspapers that the series also delves into, as well as the “main” story about the undercover drug unit pursuing the drug gangs of modern day Baltimore.

One other tip: many of the actors, including Snoop, were local people who were casted and trained by one of the other professional actors on the series who himself was a “local” Baltimorian. Some of the stuff that what was written into the series, where a third grader gets his/her first handgun when a hit man slides it across a gutter with a wink before slipping off, was taken from the actors’ real life experiences.

Snoop wrote a book about her childhood life which wasn’t too far off what was shown in the series: It’s called “Grace After Midnight: A Memoir” by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson. Amazon carries it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446195189/

Highly recommended if you like The Wire.

Also good for The Wire fans is the book by Rafael Alvarez, “The Wire:Truth Be Told”.

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California cannot legalize a felony? It already has. Medical marijuana is not distinct at all under Federal law, yet multiple states have legalized medical marijuana cultivation. The Feds have the authority under the commerce clause from Raich to raid, but the DEA has limited resources. The distinction he draws in the article that there are good Constitutional and legal reasons to not prosecute medical marijuana sellers/cultivators is bunk. Under the CSA, there is virtually no distinction between medical marijuana and marijuana for recreational purposes. The Feds have full authority to come into California with the DEA and FBI and bust every medical marijuana shop there. Once again see Raich. Yet despite this Federal authority, the Feds do not do so for various complex reasons. The obvious is logistics. It would take a lot of resources to go after it all. The not-so-obvious is public backlash, a state/Federal clash while ignoring the will of the people of the said state, and simple benefit calculations. Fear has not stopped people from opening up shops, filing paperwork with local government regulations for medical marijuana, etc. Some were prosecuted, but in the end, only a few. The reality is that a state legalizing recreational marijuana is the only way Congress would ever pay attention to this issue. Arguing against state legalization of marijuana is arguing against legalizing marijuana on the Federal level, as no amount letter writing or lobbying will make them understand on this issue.

The other issue in the Op-Ed is that the price being so cheap will have all illicit drug dealers around the country and surrounding countries coming to California to purchase their cannabis in bulk for ultra cheap prices and then distributing them. Well, by the time these dealers got back to their states, the price would already be substantially higher than it was before since it was risky driving through all the prohibitionist states. Ditto for the Canadian border. It would still be pot smuggling and the price would still be inflated, just as you can purchase marijuana for dirt cheap within Mexico, but travel a few hours north across the border, and the price is up 200%. Risk=increased price. Buying from California and then moving it will inflate the price right away. Plus, even if this did happen, better that business flocks to some type of regulated market than drug cartels.

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http://tinyurl.com/2fmkkel

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I posted my own rebuttal of Prof. Kleiman here: http://prop19myths.blogspot.com/2010/07/yes-professor-kleiman-california-can.html

One point I think you might have hit harder is that California is already collecting at least $50-100 million in taxes from these still federally illegal medical dispensaries.

I always look forward to more posts.

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