[Editor's note: Talk about get real?! People killed everyday because of marijuana and the money involved? Isn't that an argument against prohibition and for legally controlling cannabis?

Who is fooling who here?

Please don't embarrass yourself by claiming 'police don't make the laws', when the history, data and lobbying records clearly indicate that law enforcement--both while in uniform/on-the-clock and when in civilian mode as members of anti-cannabis/pro-law enforcement groups like Narcotics Officer's Association and the Chief Of Police Associations--do work just as hard to maintain cannabis prohibition as reformers do to end the failed policies.

All the feigned concern for a family where a cannabis plant is grown (like you care about a family with 500 Oxycontin pills, gallons of booze, cartons of cigarettes and the father makes his own beer...) and protecting the citizens from criminals CREATED by cannabis prohibition laws and its enforcement--not the profit from Prohibition! If there is violence driven by the criminal side as you claim, again, a prime argument for legalization, not prohibition.

Reformers have been peacefully and civilly working for cannabis law reforms for over five decades in the US, with millions of letters and now emails sent to elected policymakers, but, unfortunately, they illogically keep deferring to law enforcement's donations (even if only in the form of political support, which most politicians crave to receive) and wild-eyed opposition to needed cannabis law reforms.

The legalization initiatives in states like CA, WA, OR and NV are going to continue to expose the often naked self-interests of the supporters of the status quo and prohibition laws.]

The Capitalist establishment objects to pot, and schemes to restrict it as much as possible, because they cannot patent it, possess it (as a product), and ruthlessly exploit it for outsize profits. It is a cheap material which might cut deeply into their exorbitant PATENTABLE profits from plastics, fibers and pharmaceutical drugs. They reject it for the same reason they reject anything they can’t turn to their own, private advantage. It’s about time we throw off this oppression.

But that’s only part of the story. They are supported by bigots who reject marijuana because it is popular with Blacks, Mexicans and hippies, groups which they object to and seek to punish, as much for their different clothing, customs and mores, as for fear of harm from the drug. Prohibition is an act of discrimination.

We must be sure to win the November initiative in California. That will be the foot in the door which will lead to legalization in other states, and eventually to the reform of the federal laws. That will be a tipping point to an America that is finally as free as it has claimed to be all these years.

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What this rules does do however is give you back a defense. The judge or jury can still rule it’s “an unreasonable” amount. What the DA’s office can’t do is say you violated the state law of 8oz or whatever, they now have to claim “unreasonable”. The court has basically said the state law is not allowed to defined “reasonable” it’s now up to the courts.

Net result – a lot of borderline cases will be dropped at the DA level, but the arrests will probably continue.

Sorry, this decision will have zero effect on the recently passed law in NJ as it relates to NJ 2oz per month limits. You should be thankful it was not the 1oz originally in the bill. There will be no material changes to the NJ bill for the next couple years, bank on it.