#prop. 19

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Just found out Darren Criss voted yes on prop. 19. Darren - do you want to kill me or something? You are too perfect.

To fucking perfect

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...Proposition 19 isn't the first marijuana reform to encounter Senator Feinstein's open hostility. While she currently claims to support medical marijuana, she of course vehemently opposed California's original medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215. The marijuana criminalization she continues to defend costs California hundreds of millions of dollars every year in scarce public safety dollars futilely policing a massive, unregulated black market. Marijuana prohibition inflicts criminal sanctions on 61,000 low-level possession offenders in California every year - triple the number in 1990. These failed prohibition policies are universally race-based in their selective enforcement, with African Americans and Latinos disproportionately targeted by law enforcement.

Dianne Feinstein Is Out of Step on the Drug War Stephen Gutwillig on AlterNet

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What I think is horrible about all of this, is that we criminalize young people. And we use so many of our excellent resources ... for things that aren't really causing any problems. It's not a toxic substance.

Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders • Arguing the case for pot legalization. But before you pot-heads get too excited about having a mainstream, respected ally, we just want to point out how she lost her job. Elders, who served (controversially) under President Bill Clinton, is known for saying things like this. She once argued in favor of teaching masturbation in schools – an argument that caused her firing just fifteen months in. We wonder what our boy Dr. Koop thinks about all this. source (via)