California Could Opt Out of Controlled Substances Act with Ballot Initiative

hazyintentions

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http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2011/10/12/California-Could-Opt-Out-Controlled-Substances-Act-Ballot-Initiative


It's extremely unlikely to happen, but could be enough leverage to get the feds off their back for a short time?

Obama is pushing the drug war to entirely new level. He (his administration with his name attached) aims to crush the MMJ community I presume. There are several more states that have MMJ laws now, and it's only a growing number.

Doesn't it piss anyone off that the "Moderate" of the last election is pursuing such offensive goals?
 

ihatepolice

Active Member
Hope they can fight this and win this really needs to be the last straw, the people as a whole can not afford to be devided any longer the more we stay republican or democrat conservative or liberal we lose our power and our government knows this and there buying there time until there once again at the top sorry for blabbing off
 

MuyLocoNC

Well-Known Member
California won't opt out. If California were to opt out, the Feds would suspend all federal funding to the state.
Yeah, but then the Feds would just bail them out when they hit bottom anyways. California can do whatever the hell it wants to do, if they stopped all the wasteful, maniacal progressive bullshit, they wouldn't need Federal assistance, they have enough natural resources and farm land to easily support themselves. They just won't use them, get out of your own fucking way.
 

dukeanthony

New Member
Yeah, but then the Feds would just bail them out when they hit bottom anyways. California can do whatever the hell it wants to do, if they stopped all the wasteful, maniacal progressive bullshit, they wouldn't need Federal assistance, they have enough natural resources and farm land to easily support themselves. They just won't use them, get out of your own fucking way.
What makes you think California needs federal assistance now?
 

Charlie Ventura

Active Member
What makes you think California needs federal assistance now?

California is 550 BILLION upside down on their public employee union pensions. California has a 15 BILLION budget deficit. California has lost one MILLION jobs over the past ten years due to a VERY unfriendly business climate. Driving the California freeways, one notices a caravan of U-Haul trucks and trailers heading east on a daily basis.

California is broke. However, that doesn't stop the Progressives in Sacramento from spending more. They have a virtual lock on state government. Working together with the public employee unions, they control the state. Its the public employee unions contributing millions of dollars to the state's Democrat politicians, and the Democrats passing laws and regulations dictated to them by the unions that have broken the state. Its a real scam ... and the people paying for it is us ... Joe Sixpack.
 

Shadeslay

Active Member
I'm fairly certain Ca. is a donor state, meaning they give the fed more money then they get back.

Like I said, I find it unlikely it would be followed through or even really talked about openly. I'm just wondering if pressed a little would be enough to get the feds to rethink their policy or hell even blinking would be good at this point.
 

dukeanthony

New Member
California is the WORLDS 8th largest economy and contributes 13% of the entire United States GDP
California pays out more in federal taxes then they get back

NO California is not slipping into the Ocean anytime soon
 

Charlie Ventura

Active Member
California is the WORLDS 8th largest economy and contributes 13% of the entire United States GDP
California pays out more in federal taxes then they get back

NO California is not slipping into the Ocean anytime soon
California has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. California has among the highest foreclosure rates in the country. As I said, California has lost one million jobs over the last ten years. Because of interference from the environmental lobby, California has the highest gasoline prices in the country. Because of the environmental lobby, the Central Valley is no longer the Bread Basket for the country. There is a 34% unemployment rate in the Central Valley ... and farmers, yes farmers, are on food stamps. Taxes in California are outrageous. Regulations on business are stifling, forcing business to close.

And you say all is OK with California? Humbug!

 

Ernst

Well-Known Member
We cannabis people are so spun out we cannot see we are screwed and those screwing us are not the Federal Government.
 

canndo

Well-Known Member
. Taxes in California are outrageous. Regulations on business are stifling, forcing business to close.

And you say all is OK with California? Humbug!

Our air, water and land are cleaner than they have ever been in the last 75 years, we can breath again in this state. Regulations may indeed stifle some business but it keeps us from getting dozens of diseases, on the other hand - Texas has far fewer regulations, perhaps their business is booming there (though I doubt it). Check out their polution record.
 
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