california: Don麓t be naive liberals. Your propostion threatens guards麓 overtime and union dues. No pasaran. In Clifornia unions always win libs. Only three month after U of California tuition hikes (to preserve union wages at expence of students) and you already forgot who are your real masters.|||Oh I know!! if we legalize pot, 1/2 of those worthless right wing bully boys will be out of work!! They'll have to find honest jobs! It's going to be a tragedy.|||Funny The prison guard union has way less votes than the family's of the prisoners which they hold. In California the voters decide the laws, not Prison Guard Unions or Police captains Unions. That's why they are all upset, they never expected the people of this state to get organized and raise a millions of dollars and get this on the ballot for 2010. All of the independent polls show this is going to pass and California will really be a gold rush state again.|||You're saying we should continue with the execution of outdated and ill-informed laws by imprisoning non-violent "criminals" for the sake of retaining the prison gaurd's overtime??? ****, you suck man. There's a reason that the US has only 5% of the world's population, but 25% of it's inmates: THE LAW IS WACK.|||it may happen, with all the money that california needs, i do not doubt they will do everything they can think of to raise money so they can keep supporting there socialist programs, which is why there in so much dept in the first place,. two wrongs don't make a right., only in Kalifornia!|||The unions usually win because the ppl have the same agenda, Not so with a legalized pot issue. And there is still the FED to deal with, they may not want to get involved in AZ's immigration but the Fed will flood Ca to stop pot.|||Screw the Prison Guards. They want to put people in prison who are not hurting anyone to save their jobs. And the people who want to legalize marijuana are not all liberals, many are libertarian and conservative.|||More importantly, the Drug War provides some sweet loopholes around the Bill of Rights. Government simply LOVES loop-holing the Constitution. Here's a great essay on the RIDICULOUSNESS of the Drug War: http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/drugs.htm|||Now now I'm sure that California can find an adequate supply of real and violent criminals to take the place of all of those pacifistic pot-heads that they will soon release|||I don\'t know,I suggest you search it in search engine|||Did you type all that in one breath?