Proposition 19 has the potential to end marijuana prohibition in California tomorrow. After almost 100 years, it’s about time.
If passed, Prop 19, or the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, would make lawful the possession and sharing of one ounce of marijuana outside the home, personal cultivation of a small marijuana garden, and possession of its harvest in the home. However, prohibitions against driving and working under the influence and furnishing marijuana to minors would be maintained.
In his piece on The Huffington Post, Russ Belville lists 19 reasons why six distinct groups in California should vote yes on Prop 19. These six groups are:
- Concerned parents
- Law enforcers
- Medical marijuana patients
- The business community
- Latinos and African-Americans
- People of all political ideologies
If Belville hasn’t convinced you, multibillionaire investor George Soros, former police chief Joseph McNamara, the California American Civil Liberties Union, and former US Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders are just a few other active proponents for Prop 19.
Furthermore, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, the percentage of reported past month use of marijuana increased in all age groups since the 1980s. Why keep a useless prohibitive measure if it has done nothing to reduce marijuana’s availability or use when its removal could generate economic, social, and political benefits?
Vote yes on Prop 19.
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