congratulations fellow californians, you've managed to assure that the dark ages remain firmly in place. the defeat of prop 19 is a testament to both the gullibility of the masses and the greed of the little guy. how many more folks do you think will be imprisoned while we wait for another chance at the brass ring? while you smug medical users gloat over your fraud, the rest of us will just have to keep wondering at every knock on the door. while you small time growers protect your precious profits, the individual grower will just have to keep the grow lights burning in the closet. while all of you uber-liberal fools are demanding free herb for all, we simple working folks will just have to keep on hiding our stash. you really should be ashamed, but you won't be. you'll claim it as a victory over corporate greed or some such silly rationalization. you'll swear that a better bill is on the way and that the compromises of 19 were too much of an imposition.
the forces behind this prohibition are laughing at you simpletons. while reaching for the gold, you've let that brass ring pass you by. yes, it was just brass. it was slightly tarnished and didn't shine as much as we would have liked, but it was a stepping stone and you just ignored its promise. tomorrow's news may very well bring us a new crackdown on your precious medical rights, but you'll still gloat that you've denied someone else their profits. you'll whine over how unfair those evil leos are being, but you're the ones who have supplied them with their ammunition. what short-sighted wanna-bes you are.
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Cheers indeed. I don't mind the vigorous debate at all. In fact, you've been one of the few reasonable proponents throughout this process. I agree we all want an end to the prohibition, but there's still a lot of leeway in what way that end will come. Like I said earlier... this highly contentious bill was still pretty close to garnering the necessary votes. Imagine what the revision of it that reconciles the inadequacies will do, and we have more than a year to hammer it out and get it ready for 2012. We are much better getting a more reasonable bill passed, than trying to repair a bad and broken one with court battles and piecemeal legislation. Personally, I would love to see an amalgam of the commercial allowances from Prop. 19 and the general smoker/user protective stance of CCCHI. It'll be hard as hell to hammer out, but nothing worth having is ever easy.
