{"id":10143,"date":"2009-09-24T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-24T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:18:39","slug":"california-can-still-lead-the-nation-legalize-cannibis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/24\/california-can-still-lead-the-nation-legalize-cannibis\/","title":{"rendered":"California Can Still Lead the Nation: Legalize Cannibis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I start this post, I should put this out there: I’m a nerd. Always have been, always will be. My experience with marijuana is limited to a couple of times in college and an accidental brownie in Golden Gate Park.  That being said, the statistics and research all say one thing: Marijuana is Safer than alcohol<\/a>\"\". (Again, square alert, I drink one beer a week at most and I’m tipsy at the first sniff of alcohol.)<\/p>\n

We mentioned in an open thread a few days ago that there were a couple of initiatives that have been approved for circulation to legalize mariujana.  And one of these measures now looks like it might have some momentum behind it.<\/p>\n

In a rather smart move all around, former State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata has joined the effort to tax and regulate marijuana.  As a candidate for Mayor of Oakland, this can’t help but be an asset in the campaign. After all, the voters in the City of Oakland recently passed a measure to tax marijuana by a vote of 80%-20%.<\/p>\n

Given the poll numbers showing such a measure passing by about 10 points now, this certainly has a shot at passing. While the state laws would be superceded by the federal laws, the statement alone would result in a push for bringing the conversation up in DC.  If this can get on the ballot, this might be an interesting item to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I start this post, I should put this out there: I’m a nerd. Always have been, always will be. My experience with marijuana is limited to a couple of times in college and an accidental brownie in Golden Gate Park.  That being said, the statistics and research all say one thing: Marijuana is Safer than alcohol<\/a>\"\". (Again, square alert, I drink one beer a week at most and I’m tipsy at the first sniff of alcohol.)<\/p>\n

We mentioned in an open thread a few days ago that there were a couple of initiatives that have been approved for circulation to legalize mariujana.  And one of these measures now looks like it might have some momentum behind it.<\/p>\n

In a rather smart move all around, former State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata has joined the effort to tax and regulate marijuana.  As a candidate for Mayor of Oakland, this can’t help but be an asset in the campaign. After all, the voters in the City of Oakland recently passed a measure to tax marijuana by a vote of 80%-20%.<\/p>\n

Given the poll numbers showing such a measure passing by about 10 points now, this certainly has a shot at passing. While the state laws would be superceded by the federal laws, the statement alone would result in a push for bringing the conversation up in DC.  If this can get on the ballot, this might be an interesting item to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7238,318,6862,1617],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7238","tag-318","tag-6862","tag-1617"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2DB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}