With the recent decriminalization of pot in California, it makes no sense to me that people would vote against this.<p>Half of my friends have "green cards" (medical marijuana cards) that can be bought for around $150 from random doctors after you say you have "headaches," "trouble sleeping," or "anxiety." The ease of getting a card, combined with the availability of "clubs" has made pot for anyone with disposable income trivial at best to legally obtain.<p>Teachers are being laid off, random services are getting budget cuts, income tax returns were getting IOUs last year, and pot is <i>already</i> trivial to access: Why aren't we manufacturing and taxing this?
If pot is already legal in practice, this sounds an awful lot like the let's make marijuana more expensive initiative. The only interesting part of it passing would have been forcing the federal/state conflict to be debated.<p>When you look at what's going on in Mexico right now, it's more pressing than ever that we put an end to the War on Drugs.