OC Register: Federal crackdown on dispensaries disturbing

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Oct 232011
 

In the design of America’s founders, the states are supposed to be centers of democratic experiment They’re not supposed to be uniform, the Orange County Register observes in this editorial. For example, even though alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933, local laws restricting sales exist in 33 states. In Arkansas, more than half of 75 counties prohibit alcohol sales. This design is [...]

Prop. 19 backers: Let’s get to work on cannabis controls

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Sep 302010
 

James P. Gray is a retired judge of the Orange County Superior Court. Hanna Liebman Dershowitz is an attorney in Culver City and a member of the Proposition 19 legal subcommittee. Their guest column supporting Prop. 19 appears in the Orange County Register. =========== We’ve tried marijuana prohibition for three-quarters of a century, and all-out war in the last four decades. [...]