Sen. Boxer Opposes California Initiative To Fully Legalize Marijuana

The more important question is Jerry Brown's position.

I always have a hard time voting for people who want to send me to jail. Sen. Boxer just lost my vote.

Agreed.

"...she shares the concerns of police chiefs, sheriffs and other law enforcement officials that this measure could lead to an increase in crime"

It would be legal. It wouldn't be a crime! So there would be *less* crime. What is she smoking? ;-)

But like dndobson said upthread, it's a political position.

The people will have to do this on their own. Once it passes, Brown and Boxer will defend it as the will of the people.

Probably smart politics, as stupid as it is.

Arresting pot dealers and smokers is the biggest make work program the police have going.

Hear, hear...Aside from further crushing the poor and generating a new method to force able-bodied young boys into the military, this make work for burly cops who'd be better utilized actually protecting their communities has slurped lots of Homeland Security cream because of some forced connection between locally grown pot and global terrorism.
Around 2005, I saw one of my rural Cornepone County deputies pulling out of a grocery parking lot driving a spankin' new and huge gleaming white pick-up truck with an equally gleaming 'Cornpone County Homeland Security' decal on the driver and passenger doors.
Checking the cop’s web site I couldn't find the truck listed among their vehicles so I called the dispatcher who repeatedly denied the truck's existence.
The Bushies were perhaps overly eager to win the approval of county sheriffs with the easy lucre gushing from the fear tap...

(Time to drag out this time-worn joke.)

The issue should be decided by a joint session of the legislature.

I know.

I have an acquaintance who moves maybe 2-3 lbs a month and believe me, the last thing she wants is to make it legal in any way shape or form. That would be the end of his business.

Wow. I am always surprised at the authoritarian streak in liberals and so-called libertarians. Meg Whitman postures as some kind of big free market Ayn Rand reincarnation. But she is a stupid authoritarian corporatist asshole. And Boxer and Brown - well, they have come a long way toward the tight-assed center. I would bet anyone a thousand dollars that he lit up regularly in the Governor's mansion back in the day. And he also probably snorted a few lines off of Linda Rondstadt's ass.

True. But gold is harder to find these days.

Write Boxer and tell her what YOU think! The Democrats are not with the people on this issue. If you are a Democrat (as I am) it is imperative you write your Democratic Party representatives.

I'm all for Legalize Marijuana, especially on election day!

When will you Democrats learn? You have much more to gain by supporting the measure than opposing it. When you oppose something as sensible as ending prohibition, we see you for the empty hacks you are.

Since it's a citizen-created initiative, Boxer has no say in the matter anyway. The people asked for it on the ballot, the people will decide upon it when they vote. Just like they'll vote on whether they want to keep Boxer in office or not.

It is amusing hearing some of the comments here. It is the same with their foreign policy. Oh, sure! The former CIA SAUDI DOG is an Afghan Patriot trying to free his people!

Marijuana is a drug. The only difference is that it kills you slower than say alcohol. I am sick and tired of people calling Obama and Boxer fucking RACIST because of this! It is the same as calling him a racist against white people because he is gonna tax tanning salons!

While we are at it, why don't we legalize ALL the drugs, even the one that has absolutely NO medical value according to ANY doctor? Because non-whites are the ones that are ALWAYS disappointingly affected by this.

Come on. Call my yellow ass a racist! At least I am not the dumb fuck willing return to a Republican regime over a few fucking bags of white powder!

The posturing by Boxer (etal) against this proposition is pandering of the most transparent kind. We wouldn't want to alienate any potential voters, would we? Boxer's rationale seems thin, at best.

"...could lead to an increase in crime, vehicle accidents and higher costs for local law enforcement agencies..."

One would think the organized crime currently doing the distribution would be cut off at the knees, thus decreasing costs for local law enforcement agencies...or at least freeing law enforcement up to pursue things like violent offenders - which is where the resources should be directed in any case.

The only people more contemptible than politicians are televangelists...and it's about a toss-up.

Dear god I live in a world populated with some the most ignorant and stupid homo-sapiens that walk upright on two feet, a simian has far more intelligence than what these rejects regurgitate from scripted lines.
I'm 64 years of age and more than likely smoked more pot than most of you diaper refugees combined, I have dealt it, smuggled it,cooked with it and gone to colledge with it.
Have never beaten up anyone while stoned, to incapacitated from the effects of the cannabis, Have never shot any one while stoned, did protest the Viet Nam loaded to the gills on it, went to Woodstock with a bag full of it,plus some contributions from Sandoz and leary,The REAL WOODSTOCK, not the Corporate one.
Demonstrated at the 68 Chicago Convention with Daly' Thugs, Watched the first ever Man walking on the moon stoned like road side kill, watched NIXON Say I'm not a criminal while so high arlo guthrie would have been jealous, and yet we still can't smoke this shit in public because the Anslinger Nose Pickers deem it more important to incarcerate than to liberate.

BOXER she is right, don't put yourself in harms way regardless of the whinning fucking progressives that brought you a president that is as worthless as a roach clip with out a joint.

Get it leagal cal the rest will follow. and tax it like you do ciggs and sex toys, that way you can balance your budget and then you can take your mountians away from the growers again.

Decriminalize, yes.
Collect sales/use tax on, yes (taxing authority already is place).
Legalize, no.

Can we not be satisfied with leaving our children broke, must we also make it easier for them to get high to cope with the mess we have made?