Huge news from our friends at the Prop. 19 campaign. “Proponents of the marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot won the endorsement Wednesday of the council that oversees the political work of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in California, as well as one of the union’s major locals, giving proponents a significant boost to their campaign,” according to the L.A. Times.
They also had hoped to win the endorsement of the California Labor Federation, which met this week in San Diego, but decided not to press for a vote and settled instead on persuading the powerful organization to remain neutral — which it did.
And Prop. 19, which will legalize, regulate and tax marijuana, is currently winning, 50 percent yes to 40 percent no, according to a new SurveyUSA poll of likely voters sponsored by CBS 5 KPIX-TV.
All of this is great news for Prop. 19. I wonder if Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is beginning to regret his decision to oppose this measure?
This is bigger than the Sting endorsement! (snark)
No seriously it is good. Hope the Cal Dem Party goes along now.
And Prop. 19, which will legalize, regulate and tax marijuana (NOT)
Vern, the laws that make pot unlawful are federal laws and this prop will have no effect on them.
“I will” vote “YEA” for the prop, because:
I want to see those dumb-hip pot heads, after they pay their California Pot Tax, herded into the DEA vans to the Federal court for trial. And they will be convicted, because of their signed confession (the pot tax form) (540-dumb-ass)
What you’re describing COULD happen three years down the line, if Americans are stupid enough to vote in a Republican President in 2012. Obama’s Justice Dept has not been enforcing marijuana laws. (last I heard anyway…)