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Proposition 19 Vote: What Twitter Users Are Saying About Prop 19

Posted by Brian Krassenstein on Nov 2nd, 2010 and filed under Featured News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Proposition 19

Twitter's Opinion of Proposition 19 is Overwhelmingly Positive

As we are only hours away from the California polls closing, Proposition 19 seems to be getting a ton of attention in California, as well as the rest of the nation, and even the world. Proposition 19 would legalize marijuana use, and give the state another revenue stream by means of tax revenue. That is of course if the Federal government would allow the state to legalize the drug. Twitter, in particular, is lighting up with people for and against the Proposition. Every second numerous tweets come in with opinions on the vote. Below are just a handful of recent tweets, most of which seem to be in support of Prop 19.

- If you voted no on prop 19 you voted against AMERICA
- I’m not in California but if I was I would be voting yes on proposition 19
- The Prop 19 decision in California basically chooses whether millions of $$ go to pre-schools and hospitals or drug dealers. You decide
- Hey California, Proposition 19 is bigger than you. Please do the world a favor and show them legalization is a rational
- Vote YES on Proposition 19. Support your Rights
- I hope enough people in California voted yes on prop. 19 to legalize marijuana
- What if Prop 19 passes while I’m in California. Should I celebrate accordingly?
- Whether Proposition 19 Passes or Not, Legalization is Now Mainstream
- Vote No On Proposition 19 for the sake of your children
- Prop 19 may pass but wont Weed remaining illegal at the federal level mess up federal contracts/jobs/money coming in to California?

Clearly a majority of Twitter users, are for in support of the proposition, however, Twitter is demographically skewed towards younger adults and even teens who are not of age to vote yet. If Twitter was an indicator of how Prop 19 would fair, than it would certainly pass, however, it likely will not be.

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  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Vote YES on Prop19, Californians! You have NO idea how many countries are waiting on you!

  • http://www.gogoguitars.com/ guitar lessons

    YES

  • http://www.facebook.com/greg.shrewsbury Greg Shrewsbury

    Yes Yes Yes ! Change the world again California !!!

  • http://twitter.com/onceaweekfilm Onceaweekfilmfest

    I think this is a really good video on prop 19 and pot in general.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Il9raZACkw

  • Anonymous

    Support the United States Constitution as well as the liberties and personal sovereignty for which it stands VOTE YES ON PROP 19

  • Anonymous

    Vote YES on 19! The whole world is watching, and waiting for the green light to legalize as well.

  • Anonymous

    Vote YES on 19! The whole world is watching, and waiting for the green light to legalize as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=721954262 Derek Rodriguez

    If the Feds try to take away your rights… Fight back!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rational-Voice/100001119896924 Rational Voice

    Vote YES on Prop 19 — Save us all!

    Cannabis is safer than alcohol, tobacco, and many of our over-the-counter “medications”. If you vote not on prop 19, you’re voting to keep government-sponsored racism. Cannabis prohibition has nothing to do with public safety, and everything to do with corporate control of synthetic markets.

    END THE MADNESS! VOTE YES ON PROP 19!

  • Anonymous

    “If you voted no on prop 19 you voted against AMERICA”

    My favorite quote so far. Prohibition is un-American, cannabis is all-American. LIVE FREE OR DIE!

  • Anonymous

    “If you voted no on prop 19 you voted against AMERICA”

    My favorite quote so far. Prohibition is un-American, cannabis is all-American. LIVE FREE OR DIE!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emily-Wilkerson/100000380307478 Emily Wilkerson
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ar-Solis/100001473605989 Ar Solis

    i am from panama and i hope you vote YES
    everybody knows usa is a model country for all the world
    if you vote yes probably i’ll smoke legal marihuana before my dead

  • Anonymous

    I am a conservative Republican and I voted for Prop 19 because rape kits should be processed before marijuana plants. Today in our large cities rape kits are put on hold FOR 3 YEARS because our laboratories are filled with marijuana cases. It is time to reprioritize our resources because the politicians on both sides refuse to.

  • http://twitter.com/IHemper Iam Hemper

    Why does every article already state that it will not pass when all the anon polls show it having a large margin over the nays?

  • http://twitter.com/IHemper Iam Hemper

    Nicely put…I’m tired of reading about 12 man swat teams killing people and pets for a pipe. When 75% of all drug cases are about marijuana, we all know it’s just about job security for the feds.

  • Anonymous

    In addition to that I’m tired of reading about the feds raiding a man’s house and finding 4 plants and joint.

  • Anonymous

    In addition to that I’m tired of reading about the feds raiding a man’s house and finding 4 plants and joint.

  • Anonymous

    We READY!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Another Panamanian here! Holla

  • http://twitter.com/Twallace80 Tom Wallace

    Just got back from the poles, and voted YES on Prop 19!

  • Anonymous

    I live in Virginia please vote yes on prop 19….

  • http://twitter.com/Pshent Paul Shenton

    The world has already changed and most western democracies have moved to decriminalize marijuana. America is not changing the world on this issue. American is a sluggish backward follower.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2LRXU3HVOG4KEXWYPSY4ML4MO4 D

    Illinois is watching. Please vote yes!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZFEPQRRSLGKEBZZPBNF4AQJIZY C

    How as a country could we legalize ALCOHOL but marijuana is left to be illegal? As soon as our country can get its act together maybe then we can all live a better life. I don’t know a single person that has ever went out looking for trouble after smoking weed, but I can tell you time after time of seeing individuals fighting after drinking ALCOHOL. It just doesn’t make sense. Not to mention how many families have fallen apart because of family members drinking themselves into a comma or having psorrosis of the liver. It really is a joke that marijuana is illegal and ALCOHOL/TOBACCO is legal, but it makes perfect sense, people in Washington get kick backs from big tobacco and alcohol industry so it remains legal even though it’s deadly. Congratulations leaders of our country for your laws of the lands sometimes I truly it would be easier to flip a coin instead of listening to you and your choices but it is our fault for listening to your lies and putting you into an office of power.

    Sincerely
    Mr. Tired of paying your salary

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZFEPQRRSLGKEBZZPBNF4AQJIZY C

    How as a country could we legalize ALCOHOL but marijuana is left to be illegal? As soon as our country can get its act together maybe then we can all live a better life. I don’t know a single person that has ever went out looking for trouble after smoking weed, but I can tell you time after time of seeing individuals fighting after drinking ALCOHOL. It just doesn’t make sense. Not to mention how many families have fallen apart because of family members drinking themselves into a comma or having psorrosis of the liver. It really is a joke that marijuana is illegal and ALCOHOL/TOBACCO is legal, but it makes perfect sense, people in Washington get kick backs from big tobacco and alcohol industry so it remains legal even though it’s deadly. Congratulations leaders of our country for your laws of the lands sometimes I truly it would be easier to flip a coin instead of listening to you and your choices but it is our fault for listening to your lies and putting you into an office of power.

    Sincerely
    Mr. Tired of paying your salary

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Montague/756238883 John Montague

    For the person who said “vote no on 19 for your children”, I say vote yes on 19 for your children. Marijuana will become much less accessible to kids if this passes. Ask any kid, and he’ll tell you it is easier to get pot than it is to get alcohol. Do you know of any booze dealers combing the high schools? Once it is legal, pot dealers won’t be hanging around high schools, and that is good for our children.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Circus-Freehouse/1539566287 Circus Freehouse

    I’m in the UK, I’ll never touch the stuff as long as I live, but please vote yes and bring something rational into the drug/alcohol/tax/gang scene.

  • Anonymous

    Well said.

    And from Australia, California please vote yes Prop 19, freedom is yours to take back today, and remind the politicians that it is the people who rule NOT the corrupt governments of America.

    Good luck, the world is watching.

  • Anonymous

    I voted yes on 19, for many reasons, but mostly cuz I am for America and agree that pot is in no way shape or form harmful, in fact, it is used for so many medical reasons. Plus, if we all smoked it, can you imagine how peaceful this country would be? How can someone commit murder if they are laughing? I’m just sayin…

  • Anonymous

    I voted yes on 19, for many reasons, but mostly cuz I am for America and agree that pot is in no way shape or form harmful, in fact, it is used for so many medical reasons. Plus, if we all smoked it, can you imagine how peaceful this country would be? How can someone commit murder if they are laughing? I’m just sayin…

  • Anonymous

    Just say no to Prop 19! Keep marijuana profits in the hands of dealers and cartels!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • Anonymous

    I do not support this idea. I think it is good for medical use only. end of story!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KHMTBCNIA4H7BRZYYRNHOE3BM4 scott

    END THE NANNY STATE AND MORAL POLICING

    YES ON PROP 19

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Rich Lee might not have the most eloquent way of putting it, but I agree with him.

    All of you nay-sayers can pick and gripe about the imperfections of Prop19 all you want. The fact is…you aren’t going to get another initiative like Prop19 in a long, long, LONG time! The last vote for marijuana legalization was in 1972! How long are you going to wait for a perfect bill to come along? How many people have to go to jail while you sit around and wait for that?

    Listen…you aren’t in jail, yet! You think those thousands of people locked up in the California jails right now for possession wouldn’t give their right nut to vote “yes” on a law that could free them?

    Those of you who think weed is going to be taken over by Monsanto or some other big company is just paranoia! Go grow your own, then!

    Seriously! Is there any pleasing some of you? They’re already working to fine-tune Prop19 once it passes to fix any concerns or issues. Furthermore, it would not affect medical users in any way as they’ll be governed by Prop215!

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Do you have any valid reason for believing that marijuana use should be medical only?

    Fact is, I’d agree with you if marijuana were simply medicine. But it isn’t JUST medicine. It’s often emotionally therapeutic for many people. To say that an unhealthy immune system can cope with the effects of marijuana better than a healthy immune system is ludicrous.

    In the end, people are going to use marijuana privately no matter what you do. You can choose to either lock up and punish those people, which won’t stop the problem and hurts innocents. OR you can just accept that people are going to put whatever they choose into their body and that the government should have no place in forcing people one way or the other in making such decisions (let alone punishing them).

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Do you have any valid reason for believing that marijuana use should be medical only?

    Fact is, I’d agree with you if marijuana were simply medicine. But it isn’t JUST medicine. It’s often emotionally therapeutic for many people. To say that an unhealthy immune system can cope with the effects of marijuana better than a healthy immune system is ludicrous.

    In the end, people are going to use marijuana privately no matter what you do. You can choose to either lock up and punish those people, which won’t stop the problem and hurts innocents. OR you can just accept that people are going to put whatever they choose into their body and that the government should have no place in forcing people one way or the other in making such decisions (let alone punishing them).

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Do you have any valid reason for believing that marijuana use should be medical only?

    Fact is, I’d agree with you if marijuana were simply medicine. But it isn’t JUST medicine. It’s often emotionally therapeutic for many people. To say that an unhealthy immune system can cope with the effects of marijuana better than a healthy immune system is ludicrous.

    In the end, people are going to use marijuana privately no matter what you do. You can choose to either lock up and punish those people, which won’t stop the problem and hurts innocents. OR you can just accept that people are going to put whatever they choose into their body and that the government should have no place in forcing people one way or the other in making such decisions (let alone punishing them).

  • http://twitter.com/TheNightingale_ Siara Son-Black

    Do you have any valid reason for believing that marijuana use should be medical only?

    Fact is, I’d agree with you if marijuana were simply medicine. But it isn’t JUST medicine. It’s often emotionally therapeutic for many people. To say that an unhealthy immune system can cope with the effects of marijuana better than a healthy immune system is ludicrous.

    In the end, people are going to use marijuana privately no matter what you do. You can choose to either lock up and punish those people, which won’t stop the problem and hurts innocents. OR you can just accept that people are going to put whatever they choose into their body and that the government should have no place in forcing people one way or the other in making such decisions (let alone punishing them).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VRQMUHGID2V4KLAST2HY2AJCMU j

    im with ‘Annie555′ on this matter. we should keep weed illegal because it turns people into mass-murderer’s, rapists and also makes them steal from shops. personally annie, i would go one step further and make sex illegal too. for our children’s sake if not anything else.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VRQMUHGID2V4KLAST2HY2AJCMU j

    im with ‘Annie555′ on this matter. we should keep weed illegal because it turns people into mass-murderer’s, rapists and also makes them steal from shops. personally annie, i would go one step further and make sex illegal too. for our children’s sake if not anything else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/PuffThe-MagicPeace/100001732981273 PuffThe MagicPeace

    Legalize It !!! This Is The USA dose that stand for anything anymore? Fine Glass & Accessories http://www.PuffTheMagicePeace.sm4.biz [email protected] Add Us As A Friend On Facebook

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=692991428 Adrianna Araujo

    Maybe you can get the money for the kits from all the marijuana sales. THINK about it, it’s MONEY, not just for people to go smoke weed. You people are so stuck on finding reasons to shoot it down when there are MILLIONS of benefits to reap in a country that needs it so badly. Pot doesn’t rape or kill people, people do that. Alcohol is more inebriating than marijuana and kills thousands of people every year, but no one is going to stop that are they?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/PuffThe-MagicPeace/100001732981273 PuffThe MagicPeace

    LEGALIZE IT!!!
    This is the USA… dose that stand for anything anymore?
    Lets stand together when right is right.
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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/PuffThe-MagicPeace/100001732981273 PuffThe MagicPeace

    LEGALIZE IT!!!
    This is the USA… dose that stand for anything anymore?
    Lets stand together when right is right.
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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECCVPBH45YZLG4V2AZOEIJ3DAI Grateful

    You have 1 hour to go and vote, fellow Californians. Point to ponder: Alcohol was once banned in this country. When the government, however, determined that a new taxable revenue source was deemed imperative, they legalized it again. The same can be said in this opportunity for California. Marijuana is a taxable revenue source for our state. Goodness knows we need one. Vote yes on Prop. 19 – hurry up, you have time!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECCVPBH45YZLG4V2AZOEIJ3DAI Grateful

    You have 1 hour to go and vote, fellow Californians. Point to ponder: Alcohol was once banned in this country. When the government, however, determined that a new taxable revenue source was deemed imperative, they legalized it again. The same can be said in this opportunity for California. Marijuana is a taxable revenue source for our state. Goodness knows we need one. Vote yes on Prop. 19 – hurry up, you have time!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECCVPBH45YZLG4V2AZOEIJ3DAI Grateful

    You have 1 hour to go and vote, fellow Californians. Point to ponder: Alcohol was once banned in this country. When the government, however, determined that a new taxable revenue source was deemed imperative, they legalized it again. The same can be said in this opportunity for California. Marijuana is a taxable revenue source for our state. Goodness knows we need one. Vote yes on Prop. 19 – hurry up, you have time!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECCVPBH45YZLG4V2AZOEIJ3DAI Grateful

    You have 1 hour to go and vote, fellow Californians. Point to ponder: Alcohol was once banned in this country. When the government, however, determined that a new taxable revenue source was deemed imperative, they legalized it again. The same can be said in this opportunity for California. Marijuana is a taxable revenue source for our state. Goodness knows we need one. Vote yes on Prop. 19 – hurry up, you have time!

  • http://twitter.com/expresso99 Tom

    I quit smoking pot years ago, but anyone who is still stuck in the Dark Ages and puts pot in the same category as cocaine and heroin need to have their heads examined. Pot is much less harmful than alcohol and booze is legal. To all those conservative fat heads who enjoy their beer with the Sunday football game I say to you vote for America and say yes to prop 19. Tax the crap out of it and sell it the same way you sell alcohol. Don’t worry Americans will still be violent and ready to kill in foreign countries when ordered to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Jingo/100000012447081 Tim Jingo

    Not that it matters now, the votes have already been cast, but it seems like everyone is afraid what legalizing pot will do to our society. HALF of high school seniors have tried it! It is easier to get than alcohol or tobacoo in high school, BECAUSE it is illegal. So I would say, pretty much, no change on society. It’s a state that has already decriminalized, so ANYBODY that wants to use it does. Again. No change. Maybe you are a prohibitionist and you are not happy about the fact that it is so easy to get in high school (look it up, it’s even on the prohibition websites) and maybe you want to fight it more! More money thrown at this stuff. ALL you will do is increase the street value, make it more likely to be grown in small batches in the woods by teens if they have to. But trust me, if you are able to fight the street prices up to $800 an ounce, more poeple will be growing it and supply will equal demand and the price will drop. You will just be locking up more people, WITH THE SAME OUTPUT. Supply equals demand. Also, if you think you can tell me how to live my existence, you have domain over my only flesh, you should look on the internet for a brain scan of an alcoholic. Legislate that, not only does it cause severe brain damage, shrinking the brain, it seems to be a crime with an actual victim, as 12,000 people die on the highways every year. THC has been shown to be one of the few substances known to create NEW brain cells in mice, a feat once thought impossible. All the other arguments about personal freedom, health issues, driving issues, GOVERNMENT issues, all of it points towards legalization. But the main, main main argument for me, no matter what side of the fence you’re on, would be is this working? Look up how easy it is to get this stuff in high school, a formative place where risky decisions are made. You WILL find that surveys nationwide for the last 15 years of students have said that it is easier to get than alcohol or tobacco. SO, if you are for legalization, enough said. IF you want this stuff out of the schools, you are against it, the question would be, IS this working. Can we make this stuff as hard to get as alcohol. I think that we should use some of the tax money to subsidize free drug tests that parents can give their children, because in my high school in white suberbia Colorado, MJ was TEN times easier to get than alcohol. Sounds like the parents need some help, if they want it. 5X stiffer penalties for selling to minors, get this stuff out of high schools, this is the one place it should not be, when you think about it. If you legalize it, there is no more black market for adults. But people will buy and sell to teens, so 5X penalities. So drive the black market price up to $1,000 an ounce for teens, but it would be harder. (can’t do any worse!). They will still get it, but I believe that we CAN make it harder to get than bud light. Oh yeah, research all of my stats, before I get any idiotic responses. Open your mind to reality, try not to act like the President of Iran, seeing and saying only what you want. LOOK!! WITH YOUR EYES!! It all points in the same direction, the only argument against it is “no, weed is bad. I don’t think people should do it”. No facts. I want this stuff out of the schools, I think that would increase productivity and graduation rate. And I don’t want you to drink and drive. That is what we should be cracking down on. MANDITORY one year prison sentence for the first DUI. We don’t have the prison space or money now for that though. If you want to tell me how to live out my existence, you might be better suited off in Iran. LOOK!!

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s you who is stuck in the Dark Ages, you’re ignorant about condemning heroin, which is like any other painkiller (ie morphine). Long term use of pharmaceutical heroin under sterile conditions is actually less detrimental than smoking marijuana (there is no organ damage like MJ affects on your lungs). The drug is painted in a bad light because of users going into withdrawal and stealing to obtain more of the drug, which only happens when there is a lack of the drug, which only happens because it is illegal. Also forcing a drug like heroin to be illicit brings in other problems like pushers cutting the drug with random adulterants which are extremely harmful to the body. If I was under the influence of heroin, you wouldn’t be able to tell… The drug is addictive unlike marijuana, but that is only really a problem when the drug becomes illegal, and users are forced to obtain the drug through illicit means.

  • http://twitter.com/expresso99 Tom

    Huh?? Yeah ok… I really don’t know how to respond to TomMiller. You completely missed the point. In my perfect world cartels would be cut out by legalization and government regulation. However I am a realist. Anyone with more than 10 active brain cells knows that street grade heroin causes more hearthache than grass. It’s insanely addictive and if it was sold in stores like liquor it would likely be a disaster. The argument towards making pot legal is a very simple one. Booze is legal Pot is not. We all know which one does more damage and causes more deaths and problems. Add to that the huge benefits in taxing it and unless you are a conservative fat head who believes the morons that still like to call it the gateway drug while drinking a martini the choice is an easy one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wang-Yumin/1038634097 Wang Yumin

    I don’t think California should legalize marijuana because it will cause a lot of problems.

  • Anonymous

    what about street grade marijuana where the dealer crushes up glass and sprinkles it over the bud, trying to make it look like it has more trichromes – that cant be good for the lungs, and prop. 19 is not about making pot legal, it’s about taxing it -any amount over 28.5 grams is still illegal, not to mention the feds can come in at any time and do what the please.

  • Anonymous

    what about street grade marijuana where the dealer crushes up glass and sprinkles it over the bud, trying to make it look like it has more trichromes – that cant be good for the lungs, and prop. 19 is not about making pot legal, it’s about taxing it -any amount over 28.5 grams is still illegal, not to mention the feds can come in at any time and do what the please.

  • http://twitter.com/expresso99 Tom

    Prop 19 is a good first step to full legalization. The thing about the glass in the bud.. really please. I’m sure that’s happened before but rarely at best. Actually it’s a good reason to legalize and control it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Seokmin-Hong/100001691583355 Seokmin Hong

    I can not vote this issue because I am not live in California. But if I can get a right for vote, I must vote to no. Marijuana has a lot of problems, especially teenage group. Maybe some of money can get from legalizing marijuana, but we can lost more than we got. They can easily grape stronger drugs after Marijuana because this is gate way drug. I think this is wrong from the start.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Seokmin-Hong/100001691583355 Seokmin Hong

    I can not vote this issue because I am not live in California. But if I can get a right for vote, I must vote to no. Marijuana has a lot of problems, especially teenage group. Maybe some of money can get from legalizing marijuana, but we can lost more than we got. They can easily grape stronger drugs after Marijuana because this is gate way drug. I think this is wrong from the start.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Seokmin-Hong/100001691583355 Seokmin Hong

    I can not vote this issue because I am not live in California. But if I can get a right for vote, I must vote to no. Marijuana has a lot of problems, especially teenage group. Maybe some of money can get from legalizing marijuana, but we can lost more than we got. They can easily grape stronger drugs after Marijuana because this is gate way drug. I think this is wrong from the start.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Diaconescu/561858304 Victor Diaconescu

    shut up milk does not lead to vodka

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