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Will California Legalize Marijuana?
Proposition 19 on next week's California ballot would legalize marijuana for people over 21 and allow for commercial production. Local governments, now strapped for revenue, could regulate and tax a new industry and lower their costs for law enforcement and jails.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readProposition 19 on next week's California ballot would legalize marijuana for people over 21 and allow for commercial production. Local governments, now strapped for revenue, could regulate and tax a new industry and lower their costs for law enforcement and jails. Both sides are making extravagant claims, but nobody really knows what the financial, social or medical impacts might be. The latest polls show it trailing, and the Obama Administration promises a challenge, but Prop 19 could still have a nationwide impact.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Beau Kilmer
RAND Drug Policy Research Center, co-author “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know”
Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director, NORML
Asa Hutchinson
Former Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration