Vote YES on Proposition 19

It’s time we made our own minds about the truth and muths about Marijuana.

People are smoking MaryJane anyways. Nothing will change…It just means the cops can focus their efforts on more serious crime along with more doughnuts and coffee.

I will Vote YES on Proposition 19

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I find the individuals inn favor of legalizing pot either in total denial, deceived or dishonest regarding the dangers of smoking pot. They remind me of the tobacco industry, a generation ago…espousing the positive effects of smoking tobacco.
Greed is the basic motivation I suspect.
The delusional attitude of the pro-pot folks makes me wonder what they are smoking..oh yea…we already know!

The main problems of legalizing marijuana are related to public safety and a lack of responsibility. Even though marijuana so far does not have seem to have any proven long term effects, the fact is that it is still a mind altering substance just like alcohol.
A mind altering substance has many social consequences. For example, people using it may neglect their children while they are under the influence- even a few hours of lack of parental responsibility can be detrimental for an infant or a small child that is unable to take care of himself or herself. Furthermore, it is a proven fact that the use of mind altering substances or even certain habits that start in adolescence can be much more habit forming and second nature when started at a young age. Legal marijuana will make it more accessible to teenagers and kids who may normally not have as much access to it. Often times most children do not go out of their way to obtain things that are not easily accessible. However, if it can be found around the house when a parent uses it or when it is easily available for purchase the chances of them trying it naturally becomes higher.
Public safety is also concern since there is no real way of determining if a person is acting or driving strangely because of marijuana use. Therefore, it will be hard to keep track of them and they will have more opportunities to make excuses such as illness or stress. They are then given more opportunities to drive and even one fatal accident is too many for the families involved.
Furthermore most cities are having major cuts in police officer #s and even now there are not enough to deal with problems caused by alcohol and other drug use. The possible revenue from taxing is also negligible as more availability will bring the price down and the costs to offset neglect and consequences will likely be way higher just like alcohol is doing currently.

Cannabis is less physically addictive than caffeine, while the so-called “gateway drug” theory is a complete fantasy, and it was just recently called “half-baked” as a result of a scientific study. CNN reported that Cocaine use has dropped sharply, by 30% since 2002, which is really good news. I worked in addiction medicine for years, and this is what I can advice on the matter: Any suppression of Cannabis use will be immediately followed by an increase in alcohol/hard drug/prescription drug abuse! You don’t believe me? Then maybe you will believe the Big Alcohol lobby that is financing the Cannabis Legalization opponents for exactly this reason. Right now Cannabis is just simply perceived as a much safer alternative to alcohol/hard drugs, which is precisely how it should be perceived. To have a society in which there is NO psychoactive substance use is an illusion, and it will be good for our government to realize this. So then, it becomes a matter of “safer choices”, just like with the sex education. And Cannabis is, without a shadow of a doubt, a much safer choice than alcohol or hard drugs! Just very recently a research study in addiction medicine has determined that Cannabis may actually serve as an “exit” substance for recovering alcoholics/hard drug addicts! And there is another extremely important property of Cannabis that the prohibitionists would love to keep secret: Cannabis use suppresses violent urges and behaviors and, as one prestigious textbook says, “Only the unsophisticated think otherwise” Then, of course, there is a potential of Cannabis in chronic pain, where other drugs may be ineffective (or physically addictive), with very important potential consequences for our wounded veterans, many of whom have chronic pain. It is also worth noting that Cannabis may have certain preventative value for such devastating conditions as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. And all this comes with no danger of overdoses or induction of a physical dependence! Let’s be very happy that the cocaine abuse rate is dropping. Let’s not interfere with these dynamics, and then we can possibly achieve what has already been achieved in the Netherlands where the drug overdose rate is 85%(!!) lower than in the US, and that is with much more liberal Cannabis possession laws than in this country! Maybe it is time to give up “dogma” about Cannabis, and to start listening to the experts, if we really want to lower the alcohol/hard drug use in this country, and the accompanying dependencies and overdoses!

After Prop 215, I couldn’t find an apartment that didn’t have pot smoke coming in, and I’m allergic to it. I haven’t received the voter pamphlet yet, but Ammiano’s bill would’ve re-defined parts of the plant as not being marijuana – my neighbors burned stems constantly when they found out I was allergic. The police said it was okay for them to medicate me because they might have a cannabis card.

Marijuana is like Ritalin in that it has opposite effects on people with different genetic profiles. Most studies don’t take genetics into account, so they’re inconclusive. Marijuana makes me nauseous, gives me welts, sinus trouble, and ear infections. I wonder why it’s hard to concentrate sometimes, then I smell the neighbor’s pot smoke half an hour later.

Marijuana use lowers immune response and can also trigger Sjoren’s syndrome. Marijuana clubs make clients sign agreements that they’ll never sue. If legalized, its packaging should carry warnings the way other drugs’ packaging does, and consumers should have the same right to sue the producer or supplier that they’d have if they were harmed by food crops or pharmaceuticals.

Oh please. Do yo really have to make stuff up to make your point? None of the nonsense you are spewing has any basis in reality or science. Stop lying. Marijuana is safer than anything else available. You are simply running scared. There will be less crime and more money for our state. You are simply against it on a moral basis and sadly that is because you have been brainwashed into believing that marijuana is dangerous.

Prohibition is a FRAUD and a lie. Never a single death from Marijuana. Police don’t want it legal because it will cost them jobs. Upton Sinclair wrote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”.

Pleasant Hill Police Chief Peter Dunbar seems to be blind to a few key points.

Any other allergy is an allergy, but marijuana users typically think everyone wants to use their drug, so nobody could possibly be allergic to it.

If everybody can grow a strong pharmaceutical in their yard, where can I live if I’m allergic? Where can families live if they don’t want their children to get a contact high? That’s one difference with alcohol, an alcoholic’s consumption doesn’t make his neighbors drunk. Another is that while alcohol can cause liver damage, Marijuana abuse can trigger Sjoren’s syndrome. The British doctor and founder of the Alandi Ashram in Colorado says more about marijuana’s effects, including that it causes “subclinical hepatitis.”
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The family in this article did not like their children getting a contact high. Thieves running across their property to steal marijuana were also slightly problematic:
Medical pot’s side effects
Unhappy neighbors cite gunshots, threats as grove of plants tops 8 feet and odors circulate

By DEREK J. MOORE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20081027/NEWS/810270310

Alandi Ashram
“Working with Marijuana Smokers,”
by Alakananda Devi, M.B., B.S. (London) – she was a British doctor who pursued spiritual studies that led her to found the Alandi Ashram in Colorado

Contains description of symptoms indicating marijuana use as well as Ayurvedic aspects of its use. Marijuana is a “pitta toxin” and can cause subclinical hepatitis

http://www.alandiashram.org/school/school_html/reviews/marijuana_addiction.html