Prop 19: Support Legalizing Marijuana In California
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June 30, 2010
If you haven’t heard, California’s Control & Tax Cannabis campaign just got assigned the proposition number 19.
That’s why, today, we’re asking all NORML members and supporters to step up and chip in $19 to the Yes on 19 campaign. Help California become the first state to legalize marijuana today!
In the last few days the NAACP of California and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson (R) have endorsed the Yes on 19 Campaign.
Celebrate the Fourth of July’s independence and patriotism early by donating $19 to the Control & Tax Cannabis Campaign!!
68 Responses to “Prop 19: Support Legalizing Marijuana In California”
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Im supporthing this.. i was soo hoping we get assign number 20…
yes for (4) 20.. killer slogan.. 19 will work too.. :/
hey Norml, is this the same Gary Johnson that went on the Colbert Report and did a 30 minute section on why he is going to LEGALIZE once he WINS PRESIDENCY in 2012? if so, i think we need to point this out, get the agenda out to right hand conservatives and such so we can get the campaign going for Mr. Johnson for President in 2012
Do we have solidarity ?
I haven’t heard from The ACLU, imagine 19$ American dollars stands between cannabis, Justice and Freedom.
I place my Trust on the millions of voting citizens in California.
YES
A YES that will Ring the Bell, that can be heard throught this planet.
Really wish i could but my unemployment run out….DAMN IT
Okay everyone – I just donated my $19 to the campaign. Now I ask that all of you do the same. I’m not a rich guy but I am serious about helping to get cannabis legalized! So please donate even if it means skipping a meal or not buying the latest DVD… I think we will all have a major reason to celebrate when California becomes the first state to legalize. I’m in Virginia and am hoping that we could be next in line… Probably not though…
VOTE YES FOR Prop 19!
Also, please donate whatever you can! I did!
Send that cash! This is our best chance ever!
Bay Boss,
How about:
“Vote 4 19… if you’ve got a minute”
har har har
For reals though, already donated to the cause and am spreading the word on FB too. let’s DO THIS!
I donated $19…I also donated the same about a week ago. Lets all watch how Cali gets it legal! Then it will spread like wildfire!
Great prop for Cali, donoting money regarding it is the dumbest fuckin thing ive ever heard.
[Editor’s note: OK…keep supporting prohibition, arrests, prosecutions, incarcerations, forfeitures, etc…talk about “the dumbest fuckin thing ive ever heard”.
Really wish I hadn’t lost my job. I would donate if I could.
I hope cannibis is legalized in California but just wait I betcha all the bully prohibitionists will really start throwing big fits…clever little headgames, they think they’re so mighty! Has anyone heard how Washington’s signature gathering has gone? And Oregon has a dispensary measure on the ballot…
I am happy to donate and I am in Florida. Sending a check tomorrow
yes we cannabis. THIS is change we can believe in.
I figured I’d try and help out by making some posters. Here’s what i’ve made so far. http://brybam.com/posters.html
I’ve got a ton of ideas and i’ll be making some tomorrow as well.
Make drugs legal in S.C.
http://www.columbiacitypaper.com/2010/06/30/make-drugs-legal-in-s-c/comment-page-1/
“What we need in this state and in this country is an informed discussion of drugs and drug laws, a discussion without politics and passion. That is what the League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area (LWVCA) offers with a new study: “Mapping the Elephant – Illegal Drugs in South Carolina.”
Scott Meacham – I think most of us believe that if we can help California legalize, that other states and maybe the whole nation will follow. Don’t you think it’s worth it to try to sway the vote in favor of legalization??? Please give what you can afford and help us out here!
excellent posters brybam i donated and am making tshirts and yard signs. get ready for the massive propaganda that will emerge any time now
MOST PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS: IF CALIFORNIA LEGALIZES POT SO WILL OTHER STATES.
THAT’S WHY ALL AMERICANS SHOULD BE SUPPORTING CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW AND NOT BOOBING OVER THEIR OWN STATE LAWS.
WAKE UP AMERICANS ALL OVER, SEND MONEY, VOTE OR DO BOTH!!
I will of course donate. Although it would be nice if NORML could please tell us how effective the money we donated on 4/20 was. I would like to see how much good that did before I shell out more money (I’m sure it did a lot of good but I think it would be only proper for NORML to tell us what our own cash has done)
[Editor's note: Less than $5,000 was raised from NORML's 4/20 fundraising effort, the money was forwarded to the TaxCannabis2010 campaign and they've likely spent the donation many times over on their current and clearly very active campaigning efforts in CA.]
Please do get out that vote! Also, all republicans – if you vote yes for cannabis and also vote for Meg FREAKIN’ Whitman, you are effectively NEGATING your vote! I cannot stress this enough! She emphatically states that she is ANTI-MARIJUANA, and she is planning to BUILD MORE PRISONS! Do your research. New Jersey is an accurate model. Christie will do everything he can to thwart the will of the people! VOTE WISELY PLEASE!
Donated and also put up your banner on the site.
http://www.lecollective.org
Good luck and I’ll be voting for this
One more thought. Jerry Brown’s “stance” against legal cannabis is more a product of political cowardice (Barbara Boxer too) and not ideology. He/they still think we (cannabis nation) don’t have the “energy” to back up a stand. We DO, don’t we?!
Meg Whitman is a NEOCON ideolog, and she will pander to the worst of the right-wing nanny-state hypocrites who plan to imprison you while discussing it over martinis and cigars.
The more we come forward intelligently, respectfully (hard to do!), and passionately – the more we infuse political cowards with a reason to do the terribly long overdue RIGHT THING! LEGALIZE!
Donate a gram’s worth to help legalization? Hell yeah!
How about “Vote 19 420″?
vote 4:19 and pack that bowl quick!
Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah! Go Cali! Any news on Washington State legalization efforts yet? I will be moving there from this horrible state called Georgia later this month.
A lot of American patriots have paid much more than $19.00 for freedom and liberty in this country. I wish I could donate more. GARY EARL JOHNSON FOR PRESIDENT 2012!!!!
Currently abstaining from buds so I don’t have to worry about pre-employment drug tests as I look for a better job. Donated $19, I think we can make this happen.
turns out that in — 1972 — legalizing marijuana was also on the california ballot and also numbered 19.
it failed but the poster was real nice. http://elections.firedoglake.com/2010/06/28/yes-on-prop-19-marijuana-legalization-gets-its-number-in-california/
donatin tomorrow don’t see a paypal account but will find a card
Dennis hopper waterland :savor the flavor of…
Freedom
this is one step to becoming all the United States of America we can BE
IT is INSANE that people are rotting in jail over marijuana. Each and every politician who does not support the legalization of marijuana should be voted out of office.
For 19 is the new 4:20
Gary Johnson 2012, PROUD liberty candidate
It will be so very interesting to see how Obama handles Cali when prop 19 passes. Should clarify how serious he was about hope and change. Come on Obama, prove me wrong buddy, I know you are not as evil as Bushie but you sure are looking a lot like him these days, especially with your precious military and your big government corporatism.
[Editor's note: Governor Johnson has been invited to speak at NORML's national conference in Portland, Sept. 9-11.]
winning strategy for ballot initiative:
register young people.
I am curious whether or not Prop. 19 really goes far enough. Currently, as long as one has a license they can possess more than one ounce. Also, Prop. 19 will basically make it illegal to even smoke (medically or for recreation) within a certain proximity to your own kids, schools, etc. I’m definitely for legalization/decriminalization of cannabis and I realize that such legislation is a compromise in the sense that it doesn’t “go too far” for all those socially conservative voters, but I don’t think it goes far enough. It might just be another marijuana reform bill that is as ineffective as those passed in New York during the 1970s and that were intended to not put so many people in jail for possession of small amounts (and yet over the last 30-40 years arrests for small possession have gone up in New York). Also, why nothing in the bill about legalizing industrial hemp?
[Paul Armentano responds: First, Prop. 19 in no way amends or undercuts existing legal (medical) protections in California. Second, hemp is marijuana. The measure would allow local governments the option of licensing the commercial production and distribution of cannabis, including low-THC hemp varieties, if they so wished to.]
(reposted from DailyPaul)
How to win over conservatives on the war on drugs.
Don’t cower. Be tougher, more authoritative, and more masculine than them. If you can’t do that you won’t make any progress. See Barry Cooper here on FOX for an example, just telling it like it is and showing no intimidation:
Barry Cooper on FOX News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgp-HSmRujk
It’s about Time that a State has the Cajhonies to Legalize THE plant. Big Pharma will fight tooth and nail over lost profits…I hope Every Cali Resident votes yes and see how long the Fed.’s want to say it’s just a few Potheads that support it. 10 Million have been arrested since 1965, One Trillion dollars wasted on a futile attempt to eradicate and 55%of Federal Prisoners in for drugs. No wonder were broke! Everyone should just light up and see if they can put us All in Jail if it fails to pass.Protest dispensaries who oppose for financial gain.The experts (AMA) support it as Sched. II. Were supposed to “Listen to the Experts”, I’d say Dr.’s ARE experts in this area.
Yeah though I walk thru the valley in the shadow of crooks I shall not be afraid, thy Bong and thy Bag comfort me and leadeth me to the still waters. Surely goodness and Mercy will abound and we will be free of the Fed who casts stones for gold, they are Judas and we are David who will defeat the beast they send to destroy us.
If hemp is marijuana why do they sell hemp protein? Is it because you can’t get high from it? So your saying I can fail a drug test by taking hemp protein and get fired from work well thats bull.
This is an uderfunded campaign, and I, an unemployed, underfunded supporter. But I am registerd to vote and vote ‘yes’ I shall. Please do the same. I could never figure out the unreasonable phobia that people have of polling places. Especially when people with the most ridiculous opinions regarding all other matters have no fear whatsoever of voting their opinions.
Has anyone actually read the bill yet?? Whats going to happen to PROP 215 patients? Would we now be restricked to this 1 once of cannibs MAXUIM allowed to be in a persons posession?? This sounds like a step back not forrward to me…..the bill also states that you must be 21 and you cannot smoke cannibas in the presents of anyone under 21 or you are breaking the law…. Thats crazy many of my fellow prop 215 patients are under the age of 21 and if im to smoke even in the same residence as them i am to fear the law could catch me and arrest me for my crimes!?!? I am confused still as to prop19 and how it will affect me and other patients that grow strickly for there only medical use….I dont want to be tricked into voting for something that is really not in my or my fellow prop 215 patients best interest…..Is anyone a Lawyer and has actually read the bill and can understand it better then me? if so inlightin us more on the subject i know id like to know what im voting for and so far from what ive read im voting NO……and i Volunteer at a local collective so im certinly not against cannibas and taxing it but i am agaisnt being limitid to ONE OUNCE i mean how does one even grow just one ounce id have to grow one plant and not take care of it to do that LOL geezz… Further more what will happen to dispensary’s and collectives? will they be forced to pay thousands for permits to cultivate and sale cannibas? just like alchole giving out only a curtin number of permits per county and once those are sold you must wait to buy someones elses permit to sale and culitavte and thats if you can afford it?? EVERYONE else will be limited to 1 plant in there closet? LOL???
Atleast now we can grow 6 plants without fear but ONE OUNCE?? I hope im reading this bill wrong and it wont effect prop 215 and 420 patients. I Pray it only effects people that arent pateints becuase if not i think its ALL BAD. And i will Vote No but if i find out its all GOOD ill Vote YES and Ill donate 19 bucks aswell..Please someone convience me im WRONG thats what i want…
[Editor's note: 1) Have you actually read the initiative (it is not a legislative bill)? The initiative language specifically mentions medical cannabis patients NOT being impacted by the passage of the initiative. 2) Use a spell check as such poor writing undercuts your concerns and credibility.]
Here’s my $19. Florida is behind you California. We believe in you. We have faith. The truth is that repealing prohibition is the only answer to the “drug problem”. We could, also, really use the money in taxes. That’s what killed the prohibition on alcohol. Imagine a day when farmers grow a clean bloodless crop, and our country is brought out of the abys of decay and decline with the taxation of a product that reduces pain, aids in sight, quells cancer patients nausea, and makes people happy.
What about people who are currently in jail for marijuana possession? Will Prop 19, if passed, do anything to help get them out of jail?
I donated $20.04. From PA…. Big Pharma and the wealthy aren’t going to be happy with not getting a piece of the action. Don’t be cheap…send the $19.00. $20.04 seemed more appropriate. It will be hard for the Fed to stop it IF it passes. All States should be allowed to vote via Referendum.Then we wouldn’t be waiting on cowardly Lawmaker’s. Smoke it up regardless. What are they gonna do with all of us>Lock us Up???
GOOD LUCK CA!!! The Nation waits on your vote.And depends on it!
Wonderland….. they’d have to release them depending on the circumstances. Since ’65 10 Million were arrested for weed, and one Trillion wasted since ’37. Look up Drug War Cost Clock on Google. That’s an eye opener.
Please, this is funny, the people are not going to vote this up. The right wing can afford to fly to Alaska to get high with friends legally, I cannot believe I actually wanted to fly to Holland to get high! If the people really wanted this it would be a non-issue. I want it, but I’m a schizophrenic and cannot tolerate the paranoia much. Our bodies our minds our business period is my motto, screw those who only think drugs are bad, drugs in our culture make us who we are, make us more human. I wish Calif. had the balls to pass this 19 innitiative but alas who would fill up all our expensive jails?
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You have my full support Cali. Up here in Montana there’s often not many things that I find that I have in common with California but this is one of them. Fifty billion dollars a year wasted because some people like to smoke joints is ridiculous. Time to end the cycle of racism and ignorance. We have California to thank for medical marijuana, hopefully I’ll be thanking them for legalization for everyone in the near future.