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"California marijuana vote draws unlikely foes, allies into ring"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new CNN piece.  Here are snippets from a lengthy and effective piece: California is hardly homogenous, but marijuana legalization makes politics downright confusing in a state where the sides are sometimes flipped. Here, some ex-cops, state assemblymen and billionaire businessmen favor legalization, while there are pot growers and dealers who want to keep it outlawed. Experts say predicting the ballot's outcome is impossible because special interests for both sides will storm the state ahead of the vote, hoping to pull fence-straddlers into their camps. On Monday, every head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, past and present, appeared at a news conference to say they were "gravely concerned" by the upcoming vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).