Vineland Revisited: Prop 19

[Mark Kohut]

A trivial, almost irrelevent, comment but mine own. From Shakespeare I learn 
that 'weed(s)' were also shabby clothes
in the Elizabethean era..

One toke under the line,

mark


----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 4:04:22 PM
Subject: Re: Vineland Revisited: Prop 19

I would love, love, love a [California] novel length exploration of Proposition 
19 by Pynchon, the politics, the players, the surreal nature of the emerging 
business model, the whole.

Wouldn't as so happy if it ran to 1200 pages.


    Soullite         Yesterday         02:27 PM

    In the end, the elite were simply never going to address this issue. They 
enjoy having a near-
    universal excuse for arresting anyone they want whenever they want. Those 
elite are in turn
    backed up by federal and state enforcement agencies that make too much of a 
profit by
    stealing from drug dealers. If the public didn't take this issue up itself, 
it was never going to get done.

    Right now, the political elite aren't getting anything at all done. They 
should not be given
    an ounce of deference if they can't even keep the economy from collapsing or 
do anything
    once it does.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/10/the-prop-19-train-wreck/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29&utm_content=Google+Reader


See also:

    The big question left unresolved by Holder’s announcement is the behavior of 
state and
    local cops with respect to commercial growing and (non-medical) retailing. 
If no county
    or municipality can issue a license, that activity will remain illegal in 
California. If
    California law enforcement continues to enforce those laws vigorously, 
nothing much
    will change. If not, there’s no way to put enough Federal resources in the 
field to make
    up for the absence of state and local enforcement, and California will 
become the
    cannabis supplier to the rest of the country, and probably Canada.

http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/drug-policy/prop-19-holder-says-no/
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        At the far end of the courtyard was a Mexican with a hose, chatting with
    one of the housekeepers. jardine's room hadn't been made up, yet. The bed
    had been slept on, but not in. Lew made his way through the place, hoping,
    and not hoping, for surprises. The small chifferobe held only a couple of
    hairpins and a price tag from the hat department at Capwell's. The shelf 
over
    the sink in the bathroom had an empty face-cream jar on it. Lew could see
    nothing out of the ordinary in either the bowl or the tank of the toilet. 
But
    he got an idea. He went down to the office again, flipped a bright new 
fifty-
    cent piece to the kid, and asked to use the phone. There was a Filipino hop
    dealer he knew down on lower State who could gaze into the depths of a
    toilet bowl the way other scryers might a crystal ball or teacup, and learn 
the
    damnedest things, most of them useless, but now and then so illuminative of
    secrets a subject might think he or she had kept perfectly hidden that there
    was no way this side of the supernatural to explain it. Cops here and in 
L.A.
    respected Emilio's gift enough to allow him discounts on the payoffs
    required to pursue his career in agricultural goods unmolested.

    Against the Day, 1043/1044

Wait a minute -- When exactly did the heat come down on Hop, anyway?

How long has marijuana been underground, anyway?