Tonight Californians voted to legalize marijuana by voting yes on proposition 64 the Adult Use…
We refuse to align with police, prosecutors, prison guards and prohibitionist. Today Stuff Stoners Like officially endorse California’s Proposition 64 the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. After a decade of writing this blog and fighting to end prohibition—MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION IS ON THE HORIZON! We believed in legalization back in 2010 endorsing California’s last legalization effort and we continue to believe in legalization today.
Sure we’re hella against a corporate takeover of cannabis but we just can’t ignore the fact that California still continues to arrest 20,000 people for marijuana crimes each year. Plus thousands more serve time or are on parole or probation for a plant. And that ridiculous, racially-rooted, plant-based crime clings to their record eliminating opportunities for housing, education, employment and the like. That’s fucked up. That’s reason alone to end marijuana prohibition in our state this November.
But we’ll give you some more reasons to legalize it. Legalization will finally put an end to all the no knock raids, lying narcs, sleazy informants, warrantless surveillance, racial profiling, ruined lives and wasted resources associated with policing a plant. Have you ever seen a DEA agent kill a marijuana plant or rip a huge safe out of a dispensary—permanently destroying livelihoods? We have. It happened to Oaksterdam University’s Richard Lee the guy who funded CA’s last legalization effort and we watched in horror as it played out in the streets of Oakland. Legalize it and that shit won’t happen again.
Have you ever watched as someone withered away on their deathbed then wondered if they’d still be alive if they refused to believe lies? We have and it’s heartbreaking. Legalization will end all the heartbreak and the needless suffering in the absence of good medicine. And furthermore legalization in California will send a strong message to the Feds, the nation and the rest of the world that the marijuana movement was right all along and that law enforcement was wrong. The blood is on their hands (and we won’t forget.)
We’re winning and we’ll continue to win. We’ll continue to draw on our victories—wins in spite of a violent and senseless, decades-long and completely unjust war—in the face of fierce opposition from political parties, the media, the medical establishment and the nation’s prison-industrial-complex. We’ve beaten those dudes since 1996 when California first legalized medical weed. And we’ve continued to beat them nationwide as more and more states legalize weed for recreational and/or medical use. As editor David Bienenstock says in his latest High Times post titled, You’re Not Against Cannabis Legalization, You’re Against Corporate Weed (And That’s Cool, But…) The weed heads need to ban together to keep out the greed heads.
“For while every other segment of the global economy is already tightly controlled by vast capital and deeply entrenched political interests,” he writes, “cannabis legalization offers a wholly unique opportunity to build a truly progressive industry from the ground up, one that addresses income inequality, labor rights, environmental sustainability, and unchecked corporate power. And once we’ve established a thriving cannabis industry based on those principals, we then use that example to push every other industry on Earth towards such radical practices as paying a living wage, marketing responsibly, and not destroying the planet.”
So we aren’t the only ones who think that stoners can ultimately take over or at least greatly shape the industry in our favor. There are more of us than them. Stay focused and don’t believe their hype just keep up the fight. Sure Prop 64 isn’t perfect, and the future is always uncertain, but it’s hella better than prohibition. So we encourage you to VOTE YES ON AUMA.
Need more convincing on Prop 64? Check out Russ Bellville’s two info-packed post (including footnotes!) on why he and High Times are all for AUMA. Bellville, who runs the CannabisRadiio Network, is the hardest working dude in weed and if anyone’s in the know—it’s him. Worried about taxation? He points out that with legalization supply goes up, prices go down. Prop 64 kills off medical marijuana in California, right? Wrong. Bellvile points out how the new legislation protects and strengthens our states medical weed program. Anyhow have other California cannabis legalization concerns? Bellville’s probably already addressed ’em—so go check out his posts.
But before you go leaving our page here are a few highlights of Prop 64 so keep them in mind as you vote YES:
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