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Prop. 19 will let cities and counties tax and control marijuana just like alcohol. It will generate millions
of dollars of new revenue for our local communities in California. Most importantly, it will help put drug
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United States Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, MD (Ret.)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of California
Los Angeles County Democratic Party
San Diego Deputy Police Chief and Seattle Police Chief
Norm Stamper (Ret.)
Susan Sarandon
California Council of Churches IMPACT
Republican Liberty Caucus
ACLU of Southern California
A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing)
California NAACP
Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray (Ret.)
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW),
Western States Council
California Libertarian Party
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook
LA Gay & Lesbian Center
California State Senator Tom Hayden (Ret.)
Latino Voters League
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristoff
Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley
George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management
Young Americans for Freedom
San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara (Ret.)
California State Assemblymember Tom Ammiano
Progressive Jewish Alliance
Former L.A. Police Department Sergeant and L.A. Deputy
District Attorney William John Cox
California State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (Ret.)
Sting
California Young Democrats
National Latino Officers Association
California State Senator Mark Leno
Progressive Democrats of America
West Los Angeles Democratic Club
Former L.A. Deputy Police Chief Stephen Downing
California State Assemblymember Hector De La Torre
Sean Parker, Facebook
ACLU of Northern California
San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan (Ret.)
Peter B. Lewis, Chairman, Progressive Insurance Companies
National Black Police Association
Robert F. Kennedy Democratic Club
Former L.A. Deputy District Attorney and California
Administrative Law Judge Mike Schmier
Melissa Etheridge
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry Action Network
Oakland City Attorney John Russo
California Correctional Peace Officer William Baldwin (Ret.)
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Libertarian Party of Orange County
Courage Campaign
California State Assemblymember Mary Hayashi
Rosario Dawson
Culver City Democratic Club
California Green Party
Congressman Pete Stark (CA-13)
William C. Velasquez Institute
Desert Stonewall Democrats of Palm Springs
Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 9415
West Hollywood City Council
California Correctional Peace Officer Madeline Martinez (Ret.)
California State Assemblymember Nancy Skinner
West Hollywood/Beverly Hills Democratic Club
ACLU of San Diego
California 16th Assembly District Democrats
International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU),
Northern California District Council
Congressman Dan Hamburg (CA-1) (Ret.)
Orange County Democratic Party
California State Assemblymember Kerry Mazzoni (Ret.)
Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club
Valley Progressives
Danny Glover
California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman
Libertarian Party of Riverside County
CREDO Action
Instituto Laboral De La Raza
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Congressman Pete McCloskey (CA-11) (Ret.)
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Marijuana Prohibition has failed.
Now What Do We Do?
Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted
enforcing the prohibition of marijuana. Today, kids
can get marijuana easier than they can get alcohol.
The prohibition of marijuana has created a violent
criminal market run by international drug cartels,
and the failures of prohibition affect us all. Our
police waste valuable resources targeting non-
violent marijuana users, while thousands of violent
crimes go unsolved and violent criminals go
unpunished.
It’s estimated that there are $14 billion in marijuana
sales every year in California. Our debt-ridden state
sees none of the revenue that would come from
controlling and taxing it.
Proposition 19 But it doesn’t have to be that way. According to
California’s office of tax collection, controlling and
taxing the sale of marijuana could generate $1.4
The prohibition of billion in new state revenue EVERY YEAR.
marijuana in America
has failed as badly as
the prohibition of
alcohol did in the 1920s
Help The Police
and 1930s. And the com- Right now, hundreds of millions of taxpayer
mon sense solution to dollars and thousands of police hours a year are
the problem is the same: wasted arresting non-violent marijuana consumers.
legalize it, regulate it, More than 60,000 Californians were arrested
and tax it. for marijuana possession last year, a grossly dispro-
portionate number of whom were minorities. That
It’s time to bring marijuana out of the shadows same year, 60,000 violent crimes went unsolved
and under the rule of law. It’s time to vote “yes” on in California.
Proposition 19.
According to a report by the Legislative Analyst’s
Proposition 19 was carefully written to: Office, which provides non-partisan fiscal and policy
advice, Proposition 19 would enable California to put
N Control marijuana like alcohol, allowing adults 21 our police priorities where they belong. When we
and over to possess up to one ounce stop pursuing thousands of non-violent marijuana
consumers, we free up police resources to address
N Give state and local governments the ability to real crime.
regulate and tax the sale of marijuana for adult
Kill The Drug Cartels
consumption
N Put our police priorities where they belong, by
& Drug Gangs
ending the arrests of non-violent consumers
N Generate BILLIONS of dollars in revenue to fund Proposition 19 will help cut off a
what matters most: jobs, healthcare, public safety, major source of funding to foreign
and more drug cartels. The prohibition of
marijuana has created a violent
N Cut off funding to the violent drug cartels who
criminal market run by vicious drug
currently generate most of their operating revenue cartels right across our border.
from the U.S. marijuana market
In 2008 alone, the cartels
N Protect our kids, our roads, and our workplaces,
murdered 6,290 civilians in
by banning the smoking of marijuana in public, on Mexico—more than all U.S.
school grounds, and while minors are present; troops killed in Iraq and
maintaining strict criminal penalties for driving Afghanistan combined.
under the influence; and preserving employers’
rights to maintain drug-free workplaces
It’s time to weaken the
cartels and drug gangs
N Protect medical marijuana patients’ rights and end this senseless
violence. By voting “YES” on Proposition 19
Follow The tomorrow, you will be voting to help cut off THE
major source of revenue for these criminals.
Money
California’s current
budget is $19 billion in
Vote “YES” Tomorrow
debt. That’s more than These are just some of the reasons Californians
any other state in the support Proposition 19. For more, please visit our
United States, and more website at www.YesOn19.com
than many countries
around the world. If you vote “YES” tomorrow, we ALL win.
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