Prop 19 Wins Around the World

By now, everyone knows the marijuana propositions that would have allowed medical marijuana in South Dakota, dispensaries in Oregon and legalized recreational marijuana in California did not pass, but it won. Proposition 19 took the discussion from “Can it be legal?” “Should it be legal?” “Will it be legal?” to “When will it be legal?” [...]

Eddy Lepp: Yes on Prop 19

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YES ON PROP 19: The Tipping Point in the Drug War by Mikki Norris

By Mikki Norris We stand at a moment of unprecedented support for our movement and quite possibly, a tipping point in America’s failed War on Drugs. Prop. 19 was written in such a manner that it has generated tremendous support and endorsements from marijuana legalization and patient advocacy groups as well as organizations typically not [...]

Reason #328 to VOTE YES ON PROP 19

Richard Lee created Proposition 19 and started collecting signatures despite from many people that he should wait until 2012. Whether or not this initiative wins, his decision has changed the paradigm of marijuana legalization internationally so much that the question is no longer if, but when. The genie is out of the bottle and is [...]

YES ON 19, Do it For the Whole Country: by Erica Warren

I am Samuel Caldwell. By Erica Warren I am Samuel Caldwell. And, you are Samuel Caldwell. All of us could be in the same situation as Samuel Caldwell, the first victim of marijuana prohibition, whether we use the drug or not. On October 2, 1937, the day that the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was enacted [...]

All Hands On Deck For Prop 19

From West Coast Leaf, the Cannabis Newspaper of Record by Norm Stamper, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition This is the home stretch of the Prop 19 campaign. If California is going to make an historic decision to legalize marijuana for adults, [everyone who reads this] needs to help inform people, to vote, and to get others [...]

Arizona Cardinals Put Up $10,000 To Defeat Medical Marijuana in Arizona

Article from the Phoenix Business Journal Also a comment on double boycott – The anti-immigrant laws and the anti-pot attitude of the team. The Arizona Cardinals are opposing Proposition 203 which could make medical marijuana legal in the state and let chronically ill or severe-pain patients buy small amounts of pot from state licensed clinics [...]

Eapen Thampy: Yes on 19 California!

Ed, Once again, let me thank you for coming to Columbia, Missouri and engaging our community after the Kinloch SWAT raid in February. Many here are grateful that you chose to protest the use of your federal tax dollars to fund violent and unjustified SWAT raids here and around the county. You were willing to [...]

Robert Field Endorses Prop 19

by Robert Field from Common Sense Drug Policy (CSDP) Again and again I underestimated what California reformers would be able to accomplish. I sat docilely with fingers crossed while they repeatedly carried the ball across the goal lines. Clearly Richard Lee has seized leadership and launched us in what history might call “the final battle.” [...]

Jack Herer Would Vote Yes on 19

Post courtesy of the Family of Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes Van Nuys, California August, 2010 Dear Friends of Hemp and Cannabis, Our father, Jack Herer, was a man of leadership, compassion and idealism. He worked relentlessly for decades to achieve his dream of legalizing Cannabis hemp in all its forms, [...]