The first would be legal for anyone over 21 years of owning, share or carry up to one ounce of marijuana for personal use, and grow up to 25 square meters of marijuana plants.
The second part of the initiative would authorize cities and counties to regulate and tax marijuana production and commercial sale.
California has a long history of loosening the law on marijuana use. In 1996, he became the first U.S. state to allow medical marijuana sales.
For now, marijuana, despite its current status as a controlled substance, is considered the largest crop of cash in the state. If marijuana is legalized, sales of the herb are expected to fill state coffers with a windfall of millions of dollars in regulatory fees and taxes.
But the measure is expected to remain on the November ballot. pre-election electoral showing the proposition losing ground among voters. The Los Angeles Times and The University of Southern California survey, published October 22, likely voters opposed the measure 51 percent to 39 percent support.
Leader of the opposition, predictably, are the California police and law enforcement. Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca argues that social and economic costs of Proposition 19 are greater than the economic benefits to the state.
"What will you do to enforce the law, Proposition 19 is going to cause many headaches for the company. The reason I say this is because the cost of medical care is going to skyrocket and are already too high for alcoholism and addiction All other Americans have. Now we want to legitimize and then we say that 500 municipalities can decide how you will do. So there is really no standard. Therefore, it is a political disaster. It a medical disorder. It is a mess of public safety, "Baca said.
Proponents of the measure say the illegal marijuana is readily available for most anyone with an inclination to buy and thus, in his opinion, it is reasonable that the state government to get any potential benefits. In addition, they say, the state spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to process the marijuana offenders through the California court and prison systems. And finally, in his opinion, legalizing marijuana would reduce the threat of crime and violence by Mexican cartels ship the goods across the border.
"What we have heard from the 'No on 19' people, who are overwhelmingly law enforcement, and favors that can pull in, they are very outdated" scaremongering "claims about marijuana and its impact on public health and public safety. The truth is that marijuana is already widely available and widely consumed. It is universally available to anyone more or less, "said Stephen Gutwillig, California state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports the legalization of marijuana
If Proposition 19 were to pass, the measure would likely lead to an appeal by the federal government, largely because the balance of the underground economy of production of marijuana and its use is overturned. An ounce of marijuana, which, depending on the quality of the herb, which is currently sold on the black market of about $ 300. The price of marijuana legalized in California is likely to reach $ 40. This attractive price is likely to soon distributors in other parts of the U.S. to travel to California, loaded into a cache of marijuana legal, and then resell the herb illegal in other parts of the country.
Proposition 19 has not got much support from elected officials in California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and all the major candidates for office around the state oppose the measure.
California residents have mixed views on the proposal.
Robert Carter believes leglization is the logical progression and overall behavior.
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