DiFi's anti-pot crusade

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein signed the dotted line on California's Proposition 19, which would responsibly decriminalize cannabis for personal use after ballot results this November. But she signed the wrong side, becoming co-chair of the No on 19 Campaign -- the latest in a long line of out-of-touch positions by Feinstein in California politics.

There are so many reasons for Feinstein to support legal pot in California: Legalizing cannabis for recreational use would generate over a billion dollars for the state's parched coffers, during a time its deficit has fully dwarfed that of other American states and its hyper-inflated housing market has run out of air. In any sane world, that alone would be reason to vote yes on 19. But once you add all in the ancillary benefits -- whether it's the millions of dollars saved from not having to imprison and process weed patsies, or the millions of sick and elderly who would have access to cannabis, which would in turn become more culturally accepted as the millennia-old medicine that it is -- it's pretty much a no-brainer.

Feinstein's Priorities

But while Feinstein has opposed Prop 19, it's clear she hasn't quite figured out whether marijuana is a priority. A cursory glance at the venerable California senator's official Web site reveals her public positions on many issues. Feinstein's press release page has a menu bar featuring over 30 issues that have consumed her legislative time and concern. But not one of them is dedicated to cannabis legalization or even criminalization proper, even though her own state is about to vote on it in November. Feinstein's inability to side with her state on what the polls have consistently shown is a local winner is instructive: Recent polls show there is more local support for Prop. 19 than for many of the state's major politicians, including Feinstein herself.

Her Math Sucks

Despite her official site's deafening silence on decriminalization, Feinstein is nevertheless determined to kill Prop. 19. But when she summons the courage to criticize it publicly, she's lacking in sense and cents. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/148410/dianne_feinstein_tries_to_play_the_big_villain_in_the_fight_for_legal_pot_/

[Blue Owl]

1. BTW it's not DiFi -- it's DuFu

And she's selfishly restricting your access to one of God's/Nature's own medicinal plants to help glorious pharmaceutical corporations make millions off of drugs that have actually been proven to kill people.

Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that Diane Feinstein (DiFi) is a Dumb Fuck (DuFu).

[joeybee12]

2. She's a Meg Whitman (if you get my drift), soliciting for the votes of the severe

right wing parts of law enforcement...she really doesn't know much about anything actually. Time to be put out to pasture and elect someone who isn't so backward.

[krabigirl]

3. I will be voting against her in 2012, that is for sure. Hope she has a good primary challenger.

[girl gone mad]

4. Smoking a joint = criminal.

Sending kids to die in a war so your husband can make millions = upstanding citizen.

:crazy:

[Greyhound]

5. Just an incredible stroke of luck, like so many she's had before.

Incredible being the key word in that sentence.

Whether it's luckily buying a bunch of worthless land just before an airport expansion and freeway off-ramp are announced, or the completely innocently re-positioning of your company to be eligible for government contacts just before they are announced, this graft is as old as politics.

Now why, since she sure as hell isn't sharing, her constituents put up with it is a real mystery.