inside medical marijuana shops prices are pretty decent right now in california. if prop 19 were to get passed would the prices in those shops already here in sac raise or drop?
also will certain jobs still not hire you if you smoke?
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Regardless of which way Prop 19 goes it cannot change the Federal status of weed. It is and will continue to be classified as a prohibited narcotic with no medicinal value whatsoever. While the Feds have not been pressing the issue with medical marijuana, an attempt to legalize it at the state level may have a different outcome.
Most employers won’t keep you if you show up drunk. They won’t tolerate you showing up high either. Certain industries prohibit the use of certain drugs while on duty, legal or otherwise and Prop 19 cannot change that. Would you want to fly on a plane where the cockpit crew went to a party a few days earlier and blew several doobies, knowing that THC stays in the system for several weeks? I damned sure would not!
Bostonian is correct, as federal law trumps state law.
I would add that if one truly has a medical condition requiring a certain medication for relief, and a side affect of that medication is becoming high, would that person be able to work at any job? It would seem the patient would be incapacitated.
Disregarding the legality issue, prices for recreational pot would drop because part of what a customer pays now is to compensate the seller for the risks of being caught and prosecuted. The situation was the same with illegal liquor during prohibition.
Bostonian In MO doesn’t know what he is talking about. There simply are not enough federal authorities to enforce their own federal laws if California were to pass proposition 19. This is the most populous state in the nation and is the number 1 producer of marijuana for the entire country. If the federal government had the ability to clamp down on marijuana production in California they would have done it already, but they haven’t because they don’t have the man power to do so and passage of prop 19 would make their job even more impossible to enforce federal laws.
The federal government would have no choice but to revise their own laws in response to proposition 19 to allow California an exemption, otherwise millions of tax dollars would go to waste fighting an impossible battle.
If Bostonian actually lived in California and read the local newspapers when the DEA raids random medical marijuana facilities then he would not have made the ridiculous claim that “the feds have not been pressing the issue with medical marijuana”. They certainly have, they just don’t have the ability to have any serious effect on marijuana production or sales.
As for the employment situation, prop 19 does not address this issue so employers could continue to test you for marijuana, however, legalization would certainly force politicians to craft a law that would be fair for law abiding citizens against employment discrimination.
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**As for prices, I have a link for you because there was a study done recently that estimated the price of marijuana if Proposition 19 does pass.
Here is an excerpt from the study with a link following:
“RAND researchers say one effect of legalizing marijuana would be to dramatically drop the price as growers move from clandestine operations to legal production. Based on an analysis of known production costs and surveys of the current price of marijuana, researchers suggest the untaxed retail price of high-quality marijuana could drop to as low as $38 per ounce compared to about $375 per ounce today. ” – RAND Drug Policy Research Center
An ounce for $38, who could argue against that?
The price will neither rise or drop Prop 19 says nothing about medical marijuana.
I’m pretty sure that non-medical marijuana will be a good deal more expensive though becuase the government will want to tax that more.
Also commenting on what the bostonian said about federal law trumping state law: although this is true the federal law is sometimes unenforced obama stopped raids on medical marijuana dispencers, an wether or not obama will enforce the law on california is unknown i think he’ll wait to see if it passes to make the call (polls are saying it will by 16%)
Also the bill states that it does not prohibit jobs from testing for THC (the active ingrediant in Marijuana), and jobs can still be denied for this reason
I really hope this bill passes, my friends smoke weed with 0 consequences and it is safer than both alcohol and tobacco. Also its a free country and these people are not doing anyone any harm (although harder drugs should be illegal because they do a great deal of harm, but seeing as weed is so controversial it is wrong to make it illegal). What people put there bodies is no ones bussiness but there own and it sounds like this bill can raise a lot of money for the bankrupt state.
Bostianaa or whatever is a fucking idiot, thc stays in your system but you don’t stay high for longer then 3 hours you dumb ass. And obviousley you have not been high because everything is just as easy or hard as it was before and there is no hangover.
OH and marijuana can stay in the body for a year hate to break it to you, because it can mix with fat cells and if you dont burn those fat cells they will have thc traces in them.