Now that all the propaganda is over, I can finally say this about prop 19

What a beautiful, beautiful, bill.

This bill was so near perfect it's hard to believe. Providing a baseline of individual rights to all and then leaving each county the power to regulate commercial business is the exact right way to go. People claiming everyone will follow the Oakland model and it was a money grab by Richard Lee are so short sighted it's painful. Oakland went with warehouse grows because that's the only way to produce the quantity needed by Oakland in an orderly fashion. Humboldt County would never have gone that route, it's entire economy is based off mom and pop grows and it's regulatory structure would have been set up to help that flourish.

Some complain that it would only put a dent in the Cartels. These people were arguing against legalization in general, not prop 19. No single act is ever going to reverse 70 years of prohibition. Even if the federal government legalized tomorrow we would be dealing with the ill effects for decades, but it's important to continue making strides in the right direction.

It's time to start preparing for prop 28.