PROPOSITION 19

Proposition 19

Proposition 19

Introduction

Proposition 19, also known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis proceed of 2010, is a California ballot proposition which is on the November 2, 2010 California statewide ballot as an started state statute. Proposition 19, if approved by voters, will legalize diverse marijuana-related undertakings, allow local authorities to regulate these undertakings, allow local governments to impose and assemble marijuana-related charges and levies, and authorize various lawless person and municipal penalties. Proposition 19 was certified for the November statewide ballot on stride 24, 2010. The authorized proponents of the assess are Richard Lee and Jeffrey Wayne Jones. Tax Cannabis 2010 is the official advocacy group for the initiative (Joy, 2008).

health marijuana is currently lawful in California, due to the enactment of Proposition 215 in 1996. California's voters rejected a previous ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in 1972, when 1972's Proposition 19 was rejected by a margin of 66-33% (Huggins, 20108).

Since marijuana is a Schedule I drug, physicians cannot legally prescribe it, and possession of the drug can lead to large fines and/or jail time. However, the use of medical marijuana outside the United States, state legislation related to medical marijuana developed over the past 10 years, and contemporary efforts to reschedule marijuana to allow medical use provides evidence for the conflicting attitudes that characterize the current climate toward medical marijuana.

California's 1996 Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) states that a seriously ill Californian may use marijuana with a physician's recommendation that the patient might benefit from its use. Since 2000, legistlators in Hawaii, Vermont, and Rhode Island have passed bills protecting seriously ill patients from prosecution for using marijuana as medicine. In 2007, New Mexico's legislators passed a law giving the state Department of Health a mandate to develop rules for the use and distribution of medical marijuana to ...