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California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« on: February 27, 2012, 12:06:31 AM »
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hxxp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/sb_1506_bill_20120224_introduced.html
"California Bill Would De-Felonize Drug Possession" (see hxxp://stopthedrugwar.org/ )
While not currently adopted by an particular committee, we do expect at least one lobbying organization to support the bill. In addition, we expect there to be mixed reactions within the California Senate - particularly about violent or multi-drug cases, and if the bill would be retroactively applied.
And it would apply to all substances & plants in schedule I through V.

In related news is the internet gambling bill of california that would officially allow it through state approved services.
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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 02:02:11 AM »
Does anyone have any updated information on this bill? Be great if it was passed

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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 02:05:30 AM »
.....i wonder if intent to synthesize drugs will also be a misdemeanor...?..java
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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 02:51:23 AM »
I would be very surprised...

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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 04:22:26 AM »
A major intent of this bill was to direct court funds towards the prosecution of trafficking and manufacture cases, iirc, instead of on possession and to slowly move the public attitude towards a legal model better suited for transition to complete legality ( or as close as they can get to that without being federally abused. )

If a bill that allowed personal use of cannabis for whatever reason and included the growing of a minimal number of plants, were to pass, It might be brought to be interpreted through court law that manufacture for personal use of certain substances with harm profiles equal to or less than the cannabis plant's even though schedule I should be allowed under the same restrictions of quantity or licensing. Leaving us in that scenario, manufacture intent for those substances would be done away with unless provable that you weren't just trying to get a better deal by buying in bulk. ;)
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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 04:45:43 AM »
Hmm well that is somewhat frightening for members of this forum who reside in California, but overall I think that the bill is a step in the right direction. I live in California and currently the states budget gives more money to the prison system than the higher education system. I think it has been this way for quite sometime, but over the years the margin has only grown. Unbelievably, the state spends roughly 8,500 dollars per student and 50,000 dollars per inmate, per year. Considering how many more prisoners there are than students this is bone chilling news. Heres the article http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/05/458148/california-spends-six-times-more-on-prison-inmates-than-on-college-students/

I found a short article (http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/02/27/31410/ca-senator-wants-reduce-penalty-drug-possession/) that stated that 13 other states already have similar bills passed.

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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 04:53:02 AM »
That is an interesting insight dreamon. That bill already passed years ago in California, it's called Proposition 215.

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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 07:21:06 PM »
I live in Los Angeles and I can tell you that right now you have to do something really bad to go to jail.  In the skid row area, people sit across the street from the police station and smoke crack/shoot up.  Its really insane.  They had to transfer state prisoners to the local jail system as a result of a supreme court ruling.  If they would have handled these as misdemeanors from the start we would have saved alot of money. 

Ive heard from several sources that in California, the prison guards union is the largest union and pays lobbyists to promote legislation to increase prison sentences.  Which is unbelievably evil and destructive to both the offenders and society as a whole.  And for all this, we dont even have a lower crime rate than countries with lower incarceration rates. 

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Re: California Moves All counts of Drug possession to Misdemeanor status
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 09:57:37 PM »
........it's all about greed and money making from private jails, and all the money generated from cases involving the intrusion of personal choices in what a person does with his/her body.......java
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