Posted on 11/06/2020 10:27:34 AM PST by Morgana
That most American of institutions — the referendum — has been growing in recent election cycles as voters realize how much direct power they can wield on certain issues. Pioneered by California’s reformist Governor Hiram Johnson, the ballot initiative has become popular with both the left and right as a means to short-circuit entrenched interests.
Some states make putting an issue on the ballot a simple matter of getting enough signatures. Other states find ways to put roadblocks in the way of citizens looking to change the system or the law. But without a doubt, ground zero for referenda continues to be California. The state has led the way in everything from recognizing same-sex marriages to property tax cuts legalizing marijuana.
On the ballot in California this year was a radical proposal pushed by the unions that would have forced companies in the gig economy like Uber and Lyft to treat their independent contractor employees like hourly workers. The law would have made independent contractors of all kinds — including writers — subject to the same rules companies must follow when hiring hourly and salaried employees.
California may be a “progressive” outpost but the law appeared to go too far even for them.
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In 10 years it will be legalized in every state.
But they keep on telling us slippery slopes do not exist.
Yea but what about all those people Kamala Harris put in prison for smoking weed?
Legalize it and tax it. We have medical marijuana in Florida, helps me with my autoimmune disease pain. Cops have been using marijuana busts of a single joint or bud to seize money, cars, homes, none of which were tied to illegal drug sales. Far more people have been ruined by ‘civil forfeiture’ than marijuana.
weed and porn.....drugs for the masses....
States for full recreational use:
Arizona, Montana, New Jersey
States for medical marijuana:
Mississippi, North Dakota
Yes, weed and porn will keep us relaxed and under control so we won’t care that voting doesn’t matter anymore.
Our elections are now determined by a few Democrat cities only.
The same result as if we had no Electoral college.
Because of the excessive THC levels in today’s marijuana, which is why increasing schizophrenia rates, expect marijuana sellers to be in the same situation in a few years as Big Tobacco
MVAs caused by pothead drivers will kill far more young adults than WuFlu has or will.
Marijuana abuse (so-called recreational) is legal in states that have given up their Second Amendment rights and have corrupted elections, and one or two other states that will soon do so.
So you support legalizing cocaine? Fentanyl? Heroin?
The decline of humanity around us from marijuana and other drugs is obvious to people who aren’t on drugs.
You think people weren’t smoking weed in these States? Or aren’t in the States where it remains illegal under State law? I don’t think a slippery slope applies.
Oregon Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Heroin and Cocaine; Four States Legalize Marijuana
all starts need to hurry up and get this over with..... it’s an issue that helps the dems and hurts the repubs. get it on the ballot, get it over with.
They legalized Cocaine and Heroin in Wash, Oregon this past election.
Eventually there will be very No Norms or laws in society at all.
Hell, you can even walk around and break windows and steal things and nobody does a dang thing about it.
The District passed Prop 81, 76-34%.
It decriminalizes all plants (and fungi). ‘Shrooms, cacti, coca, poppies, whatever. But not processed substances.
Not in Washington. Not on the ballot.
More states getting smart isn’t a slippery. That’s just admitting 50 years of WOD has been an abject failure.
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