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US CA: OPED: Proposition 19 Blows Smoke Around Growing Marijuana

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Pubdate: Wed, 6 Oct 2010
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2010 The Modesto Bee
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Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Authors: Mike Harden, Adam Christianson, Birgit Fladager and Jerry Powers
Note: Harden is Modesto's chief of police; Christianson is Stanislaus
County's sheriff; Fladager is the county's district attorney; Powers
is the county's chief probation officer.
Cited: Proposition 19 http://yeson19.com/
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm (Opinion)
Bookmark: http://mapinc.org/find?272 (Proposition 19)

PROPOSITION 19 BLOWS SMOKE AROUND GROWING MARIJUANA

In November, California voters will get to decide if they want to regulate, control and tax cannabis.  At least that is what the sponsors of Proposition 19 would like you to believe. 

The law enforcement leaders in Stanislaus County see very serious problems associated with this proposition and urge you to reject it as a patently false and misleading initiative. 

The initiative does not limit or regulate cannabis cultivation, but rather it creates an absolute right for any adult to grow marijuana on private property and, in some circumstances, on public land.  The initiative is so poorly constructed and lacking in clarity that it even appears to prevent a property owner from objecting to a tenant to cultivating marijuana. 

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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake

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