Vineland Revisited: Prop 19

[Ian Livingston]

(Sorry, Robin, meant to reply to all)

Yeah, remember when the voting age was lowered to 18? Some of us
thought we'd change the world with our superior, youthful insights.
Most 18 year-olds didn't vote and still don't. Some were just too
stoned and, then, after Nixon's pardon, who cared?  A lot of us
understood then that the vote is irrelevant, and we went on not
voting. Maybe minds are changing on that. Maybe. If enough folks get
out and vote, even if Prop 19 doesn't pass, we might send a message to
the feds. It's only a matter of time before prohibition gets repealed.
I probably still won't smoke pot, but at least I can feel safer
walking around in the wilderness where some illegals now tend grow
sites armed with automatic weapons and booby traps, and prohibition
making them stronger all the while by ratcheting up their payroll.

But, really, we did get one thing very right. Jimmy Carter's swing
vote was the young voters. Best president our generation has seen in
office. Kennedy is still moot, but Carter was brilliant, still is.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        Some of the county’s more artisanal growing talent envision the
>        opposite — an era of unicorns and rainbows in which Humboldt will
>        emerge as “the Napa Valley of marijuana,” a tourist mecca for the
> well-
>        heeled bud-and-breakfast set.
>
> http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/873356--weed-wars-california-braces-to-inhale?bn=1
>
>        Rather, the issue at stake in the battle over Proposition 19 seems to
> be
>        primarily a moral one – that is, should the “victimless crime” of
>        marijuana use be treated as a crime at all? This is a subject which
> has
>        a severe generation gap, given the relatively less religious and more
>        libertarian character of younger voters, whose increasingly
> iconoclastic
>        view of older generations and the moral norms thereof has become a
>        massive wild card not just in California politics, but nationally.
>
> http://caivn.org/article/2010/10/11/generation-gap-defines-prop-19-divide
>
>
>



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