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Lots of law profs sign petition support California's pot proposition

By Douglas A. Berman

As Ilya Somin notes in this post over at The Volokh Conspiracy, the group Yes on 19 has posted here a petition by law professors in support of the California proposition that would decriminalize marijuana in that state. As Ilya notes six of the Volokh Conspirators are singers, as are many other prominent law professors "including Erwin Chemerinsky, Alan Dershowitz, Paul Butler, and David Friedman (well-known law and economics scholar and son of Milton)."  I have also signed my name to this petition, which includes these notable passages: As law professors at many law schools who focus on various areas of legal scholarship, we write this open letter to encourage a wholesale rethinking of marijuana policy in this country, and to endorse the Tax and Control Cannabis 2010 initiative ? Proposition 19 ? that will be voted on in November in California...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).