Fat white males around America have rallied their support for the 'we are the people' Tea Party. They are angry about having Health Care, pissed about taxes on the rich, and think the President wasn't born in the USA. Fate white women are peeved about their children listening to rap, wearing provocative clothing, and watching too much TV. This election is driven by their collective wrath and to avoid of tidal wave of defeat the Democratic Party has rejected the 'seasons of change' for a more conservative agenda including tax breaks for the wealthy and rejection of gay rights in the military.
California steered through these difficult time with a referendum to legalize the sale, possession, and consumption of marijuana. The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act, also known as Proposition 19, is expected to pass with a majority. Pot smokers would be free from arrest as long as they uphold the regulations of the law. No penalties for 'bogarting the joint', however the Federal government ie the Justice Department has announced its intent to continue the persecution of potheads, although many voters are convinced that the Attorney General is flapping his jumbos just to make the administration very tough of drugs, a policy selling well in the crystal meth belt of the Midwest.
Personally I'm against any new taxes, but if the law keeps people out of jail, then let them be.
It's about time.
End the prohibition
ps
In the United States the first restrictions for sale of cannabis came in 1906 (in District of Columbia). In 1937, the Marijuana Transfer Tax Act was passed, and prohibited the production of hemp in addition to marijuana. The reasons that hemp was also included in this law are disputed. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents reported that fields with hemp were also used as a source for marijuana dealers. Other authors claim have claimed that it was passed in order to destroy the hemp industry, largely as an effort of businessmen Andrew Mellon, Randolph Hearst, and the Du Pont family. With the invention of the decorticator, hemp became a very cheap substitute for the paper pulp that was used in the newspaper industry. Hearst felt that this was a threat to his extensive timber holdings. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and the wealthiest man in America, had invested heavily in the Du Pont families new synthetic fiber, nylon, which was also being outcompeted by hemp.
from Wikpedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)
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