Marijuana Legalization On CA’s 2010 Ballot

[kindgreenbuds]

YES WE CANNABIS and YES WE DID! The folks at the The Tax & Regulate Cannabis 2010 here in Oaksterdam California have gathered the 650,000 signatures necessary to put the legalization of marijuana on the November 2010 ballot! This major victory means Californians will be the first in the nation to decide whether they believe marijuana should be legal…taxed and regulated for all adults over 21.

Richard Lee, the president of Oaksterdam University, owner of the famous Coffeeshop Blue Sky, and major financial supporter of the initiative told Stuff Stoners Like, “California voters believe that our laws criminalizing marijuana have failed! 56% of Californian’s support legalization and the time for reform is now.”

The Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 will regulate cannabis like alcohol allowing adults 21 and older in California to posses up to one ounce of cannabis. It will give local governments the ability to tax and regulate the sale of herb to adults 21 and older and it will generate billions of dollars in revenue!


http://ohhburn.com/2009/12/14/breaking-l...10-ballot/

[markscastle]

It will also stomp on growers rights,cause larger comercial growers to squeeze out small growers,and industrealize marijuana production! This new law if passes is a sham by money hungry rip off`s! I can`t support this law! Try again because we do need reform! But let`s get it right the first time,PLEASE!

[buddha]

(01-09-2010 12:44 PM)markscastle Wrote:  It will also stomp on growers rights,cause larger comercial growers to squeeze out small growers,and industrealize marijuana production! This new law if passes is a sham by money hungry rip off`s! I can`t support this law! Try again because we do need reform! But let`s get it right the first time,PLEASE!

i disagree.. i think this will definitely be picked up by big commercial growers, especially for industrial hemp production, but i think that the small growers will always be around, they will become more like micro-breweries.

and to be honest, if legalizing marijuana federally and making it available to all in need comes at the cost of small growers, is it really a bad thing ?

[markscastle]

(01-09-2010 11:24 PM)buddha Wrote:  

(01-09-2010 12:44 PM)markscastle Wrote:  It will also stomp on growers rights,cause larger comercial growers to squeeze out small growers,and industrealize marijuana production! This new law if passes is a sham by money hungry rip off`s! I can`t support this law! Try again because we do need reform! But let`s get it right the first time,PLEASE!

i disagree.. i think this will definitely be picked up by big commercial growers, especially for industrial hemp production, but i think that the small growers will always be around, they will become more like micro-breweries.

and to be honest, if legalizing marijuana federally and making it available to all in need comes at the cost of small growers, is it really a bad thing ?

How many Mom and Pop companies do you see making whiskey? True we need reform, but why leave the future of Cannibis to large Corps.,their Banks,and Goverment? Why when we don`t have to in order to make reforms we need? All that is needed is decriminalisation unless you are a greedy money hungry dispencery and want to lobby for laws that will make you rich! And the backers of these laws are counting on us being so desprite to be able to have our little one oz. bags of weed that we are willing to give up our rights and pay taxes for what was given to us by God alone! Is this what so many of us have went to jail over? Is this what we have been fighting for all along? I don`t think so! Lets take the time to get it right the first time! We owe that much to those who have put themselfs in harms way and paid the heavy price to free the weed!

[kindgreenbuds]

although I agree, unfortunately I don't see a way to keep big companies out of it once it becomes federally legal. It's simply nature of business, big fish try to eat the little fish.