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Legalize pot in California? The answer is still no. But the margins may be thinning.
A new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that 49 percent of Californians oppose the legalization of marijuana, while 48 percent support it. The percentage of supporters is up 15 percent from April, when an AP/CNBC poll listed 33 percent for and 55 percent against.
Among the voices of opposition is one of the leading gubernatorial candidates on Tuesdays ballot.
If the whole society starts getting stoned, were going to be even less competitive, said Attorney General Jerry Brown, a Democrat, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. And were going to have more broken families and more angry husbands and wives.
Brown, who as governor in 1975 signed a law reducing possession of small amounts of pot to a $100 misdemeanor, has received criticism for his 2009 announcement that all over-the-counter dispensary sales of marijuana are illegal under state law.
In the poll, released on May 19, 76 percent of Californians said they thought medical marijuana should remain legal while 22 percent disagreed. California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996.
The November initiative would also include a tax on marijuana if legalized, a clause which legalization proponents are pushing as a potential revenue stream. But manyincluding GOP candidate Steve Poiznerdisagree.
The idea of legalizing drugs is one more bad idea from a bygone era, said Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Poizner. Nor can California smoke its way out of the structural budget deficit.
Voters under 30 were the only age group favoring legalization (56 percent), and opposition increased with age, with 42 percent of those 55 and older against the measure. Men favored legalization more than women did, 54 percent to 42 percent.
The survey also reported that Latinos are the most likely to oppose legalization at 62 percent. The majority of Democrats and Independents (56 percent and 55 percent) support the initiative as opposed to 33 percent of Republicans.
The PPIC survey also featured results on support of the water bond, with 66 percent of Californians inclined to pass the $11.2 billion measure in November.
Known by most supporters as the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, the measure is an attempt to overhaul the states water system. The bill would require the state to borrow the $11.2 billion needed for the proposition, which would then be allocated to different projects such as water storage, watershed protection, water management and drought relief.
Meg Whitman, GOP candidate for governor, has said the state cant afford to delay fixing its water system.
If we dont pass this water bill and we go back to the drawing board on negotiations, we will be having the same conversation five years from now, 10 years from now, Whitman said. The farmers wont be better off, and we will not have a stable water supply for Los Angeles County, San Diego and Orange County.
The bond is said to contain up to $2 billion in earmarks, including $1 billion in earmarks for water supply reliability projects, and $100 million for the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement program.
In an interview with the Press Democrat April 2, Steve PoiznerWhitmans opponent for the GOP candidatureopposes not only the pork, but the entire bond proposal.
In the middle of this financial meltdown, we cant just simply look the other way on bonds, Poizner said. At what point do you say enough is enough?
News Forum: rollitup.org
Source: San Diego News Room
Author: MELODY KARPINSKI
Contact: San Diego News Room
Copyright: 2008 San Diego News Room, Inc.
Website: Marijuana Initiative Update
A new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that 49 percent of Californians oppose the legalization of marijuana, while 48 percent support it. The percentage of supporters is up 15 percent from April, when an AP/CNBC poll listed 33 percent for and 55 percent against.
Among the voices of opposition is one of the leading gubernatorial candidates on Tuesdays ballot.
If the whole society starts getting stoned, were going to be even less competitive, said Attorney General Jerry Brown, a Democrat, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. And were going to have more broken families and more angry husbands and wives.
Brown, who as governor in 1975 signed a law reducing possession of small amounts of pot to a $100 misdemeanor, has received criticism for his 2009 announcement that all over-the-counter dispensary sales of marijuana are illegal under state law.
In the poll, released on May 19, 76 percent of Californians said they thought medical marijuana should remain legal while 22 percent disagreed. California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996.
The November initiative would also include a tax on marijuana if legalized, a clause which legalization proponents are pushing as a potential revenue stream. But manyincluding GOP candidate Steve Poiznerdisagree.
The idea of legalizing drugs is one more bad idea from a bygone era, said Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Poizner. Nor can California smoke its way out of the structural budget deficit.
Voters under 30 were the only age group favoring legalization (56 percent), and opposition increased with age, with 42 percent of those 55 and older against the measure. Men favored legalization more than women did, 54 percent to 42 percent.
The survey also reported that Latinos are the most likely to oppose legalization at 62 percent. The majority of Democrats and Independents (56 percent and 55 percent) support the initiative as opposed to 33 percent of Republicans.
The PPIC survey also featured results on support of the water bond, with 66 percent of Californians inclined to pass the $11.2 billion measure in November.
Known by most supporters as the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, the measure is an attempt to overhaul the states water system. The bill would require the state to borrow the $11.2 billion needed for the proposition, which would then be allocated to different projects such as water storage, watershed protection, water management and drought relief.
Meg Whitman, GOP candidate for governor, has said the state cant afford to delay fixing its water system.
If we dont pass this water bill and we go back to the drawing board on negotiations, we will be having the same conversation five years from now, 10 years from now, Whitman said. The farmers wont be better off, and we will not have a stable water supply for Los Angeles County, San Diego and Orange County.
The bond is said to contain up to $2 billion in earmarks, including $1 billion in earmarks for water supply reliability projects, and $100 million for the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement program.
In an interview with the Press Democrat April 2, Steve PoiznerWhitmans opponent for the GOP candidatureopposes not only the pork, but the entire bond proposal.
In the middle of this financial meltdown, we cant just simply look the other way on bonds, Poizner said. At what point do you say enough is enough?
News Forum: rollitup.org
Source: San Diego News Room
Author: MELODY KARPINSKI
Contact: San Diego News Room
Copyright: 2008 San Diego News Room, Inc.
Website: Marijuana Initiative Update