idk but it would probably suck. if the government controlled marijuana, they would be able to tax it ridiculously high. the would also be able to cultivate it and control how much THC is in it.

Right now, it’s looks like it’s about 50/50 for Proposition 19 passing. I would like to see it passed, but I have lived in California long enough to know that things like this are rarely a slam dunk (look what happened with gay marriage).

People erroneously think that California is this big hippy bastion where anything goes, when actually, there are as many hard core conservatives in the state as hard core liberals.

To answer you, I honestly think Oregon or Washington would have been the first states to legalize it. It’s going to be on Oregon’s ballot in November, 2012. There was a petition circulating in Washington to get it on the November ballot, but with a late start, proponents failed to get enough signatures. They promise to be back next year.

That’s a tough call. Maybe Colorado or some other west coast states.

Mutt, the federal government is never going to go after people if states legalize it. They don’t have any money, they’re not going after medical marijuana patients, and companies only drug test people because it’s illegal. Companies are not going after people for their alcohol, tobacco, and Vicodin. Besides, more and more Americans are supporting marijuana legalization, so it wouldn’t be a good political move to waste money going after what most of America sees at worst some hippies over in California. State legalization seems like the best plan to me.

EDIT: Mutt, I understand that the federal government can go after Californians that use it, and they occasionally do, but they can’t keep up. For every dispensary that they raid, a hundred more pop up in its place. They’re powerless. The same would likely be the case for Prop 19, if it passes. I think that especially since, if it passes, Californians directly voted this in, most Americans would support not going after people, and so we wouldn’t see the necessary effort from the feds to have a significant effect.

With Vicodin I was talking about drug testing. Once/if Prop 19 gets underway, especially if other states follow in its footsteps, I’d predict that many companies (probably mostly smaller ones at first) that have drug testing for their employees will stop testing for THC. That’s just what I would think/hope.