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"Where Do Your Representatives Stand On Pot?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable local story out of San Diego, which gets started this way: Elected officials in San Diego are either opposed to Proposition 19 or don?t want to make their position public, according to the results of a KPBS survey. KPBS News surveyed 146 elected and appointed officials in the county - among them mayors, council members, city attorneys and police chiefs ? on whether they support the ballot initiative that would regulate and tax marijuana just like alcohol. Of the 146 people polled, 41 were opposed to Prop 19, three declined to state, and two had no opinion. The remainder did not respond to our survey. Proposition 19 not only legalizes growing and possessing small amounts of recreational marijuana, it allows cities and counties to regulate and tax the commercial production and sale of marijuana...continue to full post

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