Steve Cooley - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

i hope you growers and clinic owners who voted no on 19 are happy cuz you're in for a world of hurt if this guy is elected. he's responsible for shutting down nearly every clinic in LA county.

Cooley is a problem regardless of the outcome of Prop. 19.

Bloody hell... it's down to a difference of about 60,000 votes that's going to put this dodgy cunt in office as of 0200 on Nov. 3. Here's hoping the last 20% to report in gives Harris the 1%+ to complete (or remedy, depending on your perspective on Prop. 19) this eventful day.

TokinPodPilot said:

Bloody hell... it's down to a difference of about 60,000 votes that's going to put this dodgy cunt in office as of 0200 on Nov. 3. Here's hoping the last 20% to report in gives Harris the 1%+ to complete (or remedy, depending on your perspective on Prop. 19) this eventful day.

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I'd like to thank the green party and the peace and freedom party for bringing us our new attorney general. Real nice. Their combined 200k votes might have been useful here. I'd love to know how Kamala "legalize it!" Harris wasn't liberal enough for them. Have they been to San Francisco?

0218: BINGO! 46.1% at 86% reporting! Good day....


0223: Harris maintaining a lead of 37,000+ votes with 88.7% reporting in.... I feel like I used to when I would go bowling as a kid. I keep feeling the urge to wave at the numbers much like I used to wave futilely at the ball to will it to move. heh

Holy shit!

Kamala D. Harris Dem 3,028,387 46.1%
Steve Cooley GOP 2,991,537 45.5%

according to SF gate. They called it too soon! Victory is still possible!

89% in

If I F5 any harder, I'm going to wreck my keyboard.

TokinPodPilot said:

If I F5 any harder, I'm going to wreck my keyboard.

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I'll STFU about prop 19 if Harris wins!

89.2% gahhhh. hurry up!

Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 3,035,482
46.1%
Steve Cooley (Rep) 3,003,412
45.6%

Dan Kone said:

They aren't operational yet. Once they go into service, the DEA will try to shut them down. Obviously the owners of those those warehouses know this and won't put them into service until they have a plan to win the case. I think they will challenge the federal narcotic scheduling.

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Thats exactly what I believe the strategy is. The Human Health Services department of the govt has a patent on medical marijuana and cannabinoids used for treatments, that it obtained in 1999. If one arm of the US govt was able to declare that marijuana has vast medical benefits, how can yet another arm of the govt ignore that and continue to have MJ on schedule one? Schedule one drugs have ZERO medical benefit and a huge potential for addiction or abuse. They have never proven marijuana has any type of addictive properties. By the very definition of schedule one, marijuana is improperly classified.

Heck, a drug that has more potential for abuse and has zero medical benefits is currently regulated under the internal revenue code, it's alcohol. Alcohol causes more deaths, destruction and misery than marijuana ever will, yet it remains legal under interna revenue codes that generate funds for the government. The same is true of tobacco, which is known to be a harbinger of cancer, death and deformity. We know that alcohol and tobacco kill, yet we continue to tolerate their use in our society. It proves that we allow ourselves to be governed, sometimes against our free wills. If a majority stood up and refused to support drug laws and lit up in protest, laws would change. What we need are huge city demonstrations and sit ins to demonstrate that we no longer support a government of prohibition.

Conservatives tell you that government should shrink and get of the way of capitalism, yet they are the first to also call for huge chests of war funds to fight the war on drugs. I find it very ironic that the GOP calls for smaller government, yet an expansion on the drug war.

Dan Kone said:

I'll STFU about prop 19 if Harris wins!

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And we can all get back to the task of writing effective legislation. Look at it this way... You almost got a bill passed that even you admitted had major flaws and was inadequate in it's language. We have two years to reconcile the issues of that bill and/or work on getting CCCHI more palatable and get a legalization bill on the ballot we can ALL support. At that point, we'll also be into a presidential election year and in a FAR better position to leverage for support.

TokinPodPilot said:

And we can all get back to the task of writing effective legislation. Look at it this way... You almost got a bill passed that even you admitted had major flaws and was inadequate in it's language. We have two years to reconcile the issues of that bill and/or work on getting CCCHI more palatable and get a legalization bill on the ballot we can ALL support. At that point, we'll also be into a presidential election year and in a FAR better position to leverage for support.

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I'll support every single piece of legalization law that comes out. I don't think any will be this likely to pass for years, but I'll be there.

89.8%

Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 3,062,912 46.1%
Steve Cooley (Rep) 3,022,624 45.5%

The overwhelming majority of the counties that haven't reported yet are all Harris supporting counties.

90.2% reporting in and 46.1% v 45.6% Go Go Harris!

Serapis said:

Thats exactly what I believe the strategy is. The Human Health Services department of the govt has a patent on medical marijuana and cannabinoids used for treatments, that it obtained in 1999.

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Bingo.

Conservatives tell you that government should shrink and get of the way of capitalism, yet they are the first to also call for huge chests of war funds to fight the war on drugs. I find it very ironic that the GOP calls for smaller government, yet an expansion on the drug war.

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When (most) conservatives say they want small government they are lying. They want legislate who can or can't get married. They want to throw us in prison for having a harmless plant. Ask conservatives if they support shrinking the size of government starting with the biggest portion of our budget, military spending. 90% will say no way!

The only exception to that is true libertarians. Other than them conservatives don't want smaller government. They want to sell the country to multinational corporations and make their religion law.

90.6%

Kamala D. Harris (Dem) 3,084,006 46.1%
Steve Cooley (Rep) 3,045,618 45.6%

This is what I found...

Candidate Votes Percent Kamala D. Harris (Dem)3,238,231 46.1%
Steve Cooley (Rep)3,199,712 45.6%
Diane Beall Templin (AI)121,238 1.7%
Peter Allen (Grn)181,723 2.5%
Timothy J. Hannan (Lib)176,057 2.5%
Robert J. Evans (P&F)114,033 1.6%



With Harris as AG, we might actually see some moves toward legalization over the next four years.

I really hope Cooley becomes an unsuccessful ambulance chaser. It fits his talents.

veggiegardener said:

I strongly suggest you talk to Thomas J O'Connell, MD.

Given 20 minutes, he'll convince you that Cannabis is very much under prescribed.

He was the first doctor to give me a recommendation, and he spent hours explaining some studies he was doing.

At that time, he'd interviewed 7000 MMJ patients and found that people who use Cannabis regularly, get considerable benefit from its use.

People who don't benefit from it, eventually lose interest once the newness wears off.

His case is very solid. I hope you'll try to find out what he says.

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Dr. O'connel is the first doctor to give me my recommendation, in 2001. He is a neurosurgeon and a really brilliant man. The bay area, but I'm not sure he actually "practices" anymore, I think he came out of retirement just because of the medical marijuana battle.