Hound Dog
Nov 3, 2010, 11:47 AM
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That just means that the Central American and Mexican marijuana growers who have moved into the business over the past few years and pretty much taken it over from the CA locals will be cheering mightily at this outcome.
I don't use the stuff, but I do care about the continuing drug trafficking which is so destructive.
Well put, Gringal. Ironoically, the vote broke down pretty consistently along certain demographic lines with old folks like us providing the margin of defeat or so I read in the U.S. press. Isn´t that rich? The flower children of the 1960s and 70s who were the primary users of weed in those days are now providing the margin to deny that substance to today´s youth unless they purchase it illegally from the Mexican murderers supplied fire power and an insatiable market by U.S. consumers. Sort of like the older women in tribal societies supporting female genital mutilation among their youth because, by God, if excision of the clitoris was good enough for them it´s good enough for their kids.
Just a month or so ago, we were talking to an old friend who was a neighbor in rural Sonoma County, California who was the chief supplier of weed to the whole neighborhood which she grew in her isolated, mountainous back acreage. She and her husband not only sold the best dope in Sonoma County but threw the best nude swimming parties in town. She has completely changed in her 60s and has become a right wing nut who lives in Oakland, hates African Americans and Mexicans and planned to vote against the marijuana referendum. Who says places like Texas and Alabama have a lock on hypocritical retards. I feel lucky I left California ten years ago before it became the Alabama I fled in 1966.
Looking back on it, California should have tried "local county option" as Alabama did at the end of prohibition except the supporters of the referendum, most of whom live in progressive urban (and some rural) areas arrogantly failed to understand that most of California is a backwater with as many troglodytes as benighted Arizona. They may have also forgotten that there are many growers and distributors in California and Mexico who would do anything to prevent legalization of any drugs except alcohol. They were naive to say the least.
In Alabama, local county option meant that of the state´s 67 counties,only a few were "wet" vs. "dry" when I was a kid. Of course all of the big cities such as Birmingham and Mobile were "wet" and a number of very poor counties with poor whites and blacks without transportation were "wet" as well while rural counties in northern parts of the state where the populations were mostly white religious fundamentalists voted to stay "dry". Remember, blacks were mostly not allowed to vote in those days. If California had tried county option, counties such as San Francisco and Alameda would probably have allowed marijuana and less enlightened places would keep weed illegal. That way, as happened in Alabama in the 50s, folks who wanted to buy marijuana would drive to the nearest county where the drug was legal, buy some weed, smoke it on the spot and get back on the highways to home driving pretty much as we did as kids after consuming a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon at the nearest "wet" county line back then.
As an aside, counties legalizing marijuana sales and consumption would receive the benefit of tax revenues arising therefrom and counties refusing legalization would forgo any resulting tax benefits. Fair is fair.
The incredibly profitable if violent Mexican drug suppliers can continue as before. I don´t use drugs of any kind any more and never go to the states. No skin off my back.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Nov 3, 2010, 1:04 PM)
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