Unlike Colorado and Washington State, where voters have a chance this November to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for consenting adults, California has no such proposal on the statewide election ballot this year. We had our chance two years ago with Proposition 19, but the folks backing it blew their chances with the stoner contingent by adding too much fine print, like severely limiting the amount of pot you can grow and outlining harsh penalties for anyone convicted of providing pot to a minor, so it failed at the polls.
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1. Proposition S. Vote for this one if you live in Imperial Beach. Besides Gray and the Libertarians, it's also backed by the San Diego Democratic Party, Erika Lowry, a Republican running for the city council there, the Green Party, and the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council.
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).