Legalization Effort Returns In California.

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US CA: Editorial: Pot Legalization Effort Returns

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Pubdate: Thu, 3 Mar 2011

Source: Orange County Register, The (CA)

Copyright: 2011 The Orange County Register

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POT LEGALIZATION EFFORT RETURNS

 

Proposition 19, an initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, was soundly defeated in the November election after the state's political establishment, Democratic and Republican, came out strongly against it. We had concerns with a provision related to the ability of employers to combat marijuana use at the workplace, but we are glad to see that advocates are planning to take another stab at the issue for the November 2012 election.

 

It really is time to look at ways to reduce the drug war and all the costs, injustices and assaults on individual liberty that this war entails. A starting point could be marijuana legalization, given its wide use and nonaddictive nature, although the devil always is in the details.

 

The Marijuana Regulation and Tax Act of 2012 would "repeal all California state laws that prohibit marijuana possession, sales, transportation, production, processing and cultivation by people 21 years of age and older." It does not repeal laws regarding "driving a motor vehicle under the influence of marijuana; using or being under the influence of marijuana in public or in the workplace; smoking marijuana in the presence of, or providing, transferring or selling marijuana to, a person under the age of 21."