Proposition 19 is a measure that will tax and regulate cannabis to consumers over 21 for recreational uses. I morally support this for 2 obvious reasons. One this will officially legalize cannabis for adult use, which will alleviate some stresses like parolees who cant smoke a safer alternative, or that college student who wants to smoke a blunt with his buddies but risks the chances of getting a student loan. So there are reasons this would be beneficial to our society, however there are repercussions that are not known by the majority.

If prop 19 does pass it will hurt the small time grower who is making a nice living vending (selling) to collectives. Right now if your a registered patient and grow your own medicine, you are allowed under state law to sell (vend) to collectives. However should prop 19 pass, this set up will change to big commercial grows that supply the surrounding collectives. For someone with a green thumb and  business mind, prop 19 will diminish there chances of starting something of there own in this up and coming industry.

Political propaganda has been used since the forties to portray or persuade someone or something as something else. Long has this political technique worked with much success; breaking some people, yet at the same time making others. Many things have fallen pray to propaganda in the last 100 years including  jewish people, black America, countless politicians, political activists, arabs, muslims, mexicans, and among other things, cannabis or “marijuana”. Harry Anslinger, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, and J. Edger Hoover, former Director of the F.B.I along with Former President Richard “tricky Dick” Nixon constructed an ungodly like facade around cannabis and anything that had to do with it. They were down right crooks highjacking the U.S government to suit there own interests and they would go to the extreme to rid of any opposition.

Unfortunately when the watergate scandal unfolded the criminal was pardoned and went free. Since there was no punishment there was no lesson learned; and being so, history was doomed to repeat itself. Former President George W. Bush has had reign over the U.S. government for the past eight years. He and his cronies have had our government in the palm of their hand; literally tricking, lying to the people and congress to go to war with iraq and using our army and brave soldiers for their personal needs. Using 9/11, my birthday, as a propagandist tool to put fear into the american people; this was especially obvious when Former mayor of New York and 2009 Presidential Candidate Rudy Juliani gave a speech at the 2008 RNC convention. But now things are changing, minds are opening and brains are thinking. 14 years after tupac said we weren’t ready for a black president and 13 years after his murder a black president has been elected by the american public for the first time in U.S. history. President Barack Hussein Obama won in a landslide fashion against republican opponent Senator John McCain. President Obama is a liberal minded harvard graduate, a former community organizer from the impoverished areas of chicago and a realist who has cautious optimism. When asked question regarding personal experiences he gave an honest, dignified answer; he said himself that he inhaled when he consumed cannabis for the first time because “that was the point”.

There are countless people who have ailments, wether it be depression, aids, or multiple sclerosis, that can be treated with cannabis. The only problem associated with cannabis is the accessibility; these people have to go through hell to get their medicine, they have to put themselves in dangerous situations every time they want some medicine. They have to meet a sketchy dealer who’s always out to hustle you;  try to sell the least amount of bud for the most amount of money. The danger doesn’t stop there, even worse the patient has to worry about the police finding the cannabis. Cannabis is a schedule one drug, which, under the federal government, means it has no medicinal value, and is extremely addictive. This law is still in effect, when at the same time more than 10 states have recognized the medicinal value of cannabis.