Proponents and opponents of California’s Control and Tax Cannabis marijuana legalization initiative, now known officially as Proposition 19, are going after the African American vote.
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Race & Reefer — the African American Vote in California’s Marijuana Legalization Initiative
July 14, 2010 | 5 views | No Comments
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At age 17, sitting in the basement with friends smoking pot, Don Corbeil first noticed all the cameras spying on him. Then he became convinced a radioactive chip had been planted in his head. “I thought I was being monitored like a lab rat,” he explains. It never occurred to him that marijuana could be [...]
Bill Would Legalize Marijuana As Therapeutic Option
July 14, 2010 | 2 views | No Comments
They’re lighting up joints in Bryn Mawr and Squirrel Hill after putting the kids to bed. At Abay, an ultra-hip eatery in East Liberty, pro-medical marijuana activists are recruiting and organizing new members over martinis. And in Harrisburg, some legislators are pushing for passage of a bill that would make Pennsylvania the 15th state [...]
Medical Marijuana Too Easy?
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In between Jay-Z and Lady Gaga songs on Redding’s hip-hop and pop music station, an advertisement proclaims that for just $149, a new doctor in town will evaluate a patient for medical marijuana. Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai’s advertisement would have been unthinkable until nine months ago, when President Barack Obama directed federal [...]
The Politics of Cannabis And Color
July 14, 2010 | 3 views | No Comments
Alice Huffman’s explanation of the California NAACP’s endorsement of Proposition 19, the state initiative calling for the regulated legalization and taxation of marijuana, was well reasoned and smartly put. But she was promptly pounced upon, smeared by a collection of out-of-touch, fear-mongering detractors, including “more than 20 African American religious and community leaders” headed [...]
Feinstein Supports Campaign To Defeat Legalization
July 13, 2010 | 0 views | No Comments
Los Angeles — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior U.S. senator, has lent her support to the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure on the state’s November ballot. The prominent Democrat, first elected to the Senate in 1992, signed the ballot argument against the initiative. On Monday, she issued [...]
