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What Could Go Wrong?: Still More on Proposition 19

August 29, 2010 By 2 Comments

In Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning (Law, State, and Practical Reason), Neil MacCormick notes that:

It is a well-recognized truism that even the most carefully drafted and detailed text can never convey a fully determinate meaning for all possible purposes.1

This is as true of what I’ve been writing lately on Proposition 19 as it is of Proposition 19 itself.

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Endnotes:
  1. Neil MacCormick, Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning (Law, State, and Practical Reason) (2005) 122. [↩]
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That Ye Be Not Judged

August 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I previously wrote a post titled “Judge Not,” so I couldn’t go with that again.  Then it occurred to me that the second part of Matthew 7:1 from the book read by almost as many Christians as non-Christians fits the current post better anyway.

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Toke It Easy, Man: More on Proposition 19

August 14, 2010 By 13 Comments

My last post, “Blowing Smoke: Proposition 19 & Medical Marijuana,” has perhaps drawn more readers than just about any other post I’ve written (including “A Drowning Man”).

Some comments indicate an incomplete grasp of what my original post was intended to point out: there is a possibility for Proposition 19, as worded, to undo the protections of the existing rights of medical marijuana patients.

This post, therefore, is another attempt to focus attention on that point and explain why, regardless of the intentions of Proposition 19 proponents, Proposition 19 may contain within it the seeds to undoing, at least in part, what was accomplished with Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, which legalized marijuana in California for medical patients who needed it.

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Blowing Smoke: Proposition 19 & Medical Marijuana

August 7, 2010 By 42 Comments

Yesterday, I drove to downtown San Francisco — something which, on a weekday, is definitely not on my list of favorite things to do — to the Hiram W. Johnson State Building for a meeting of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers.  The topic of discussion was Marijuana & Federalism: California a Test Case: The Legal Implications of Proposition 19.1

The meeting was somewhat informative, but when it came to addressing questions of significant concern to my medical marijuana clients, I guess I’d have to say there was a lot of smoke being blown — and it didn’t come from any high-quality buds.

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Endnotes:
  1. At the time of this blog post, the VCL main page advertised the conference, so I linked it.  As time passes, I suspect they will change the content of that website, but it still may be useful to people to know where it was. [↩]
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

August 4, 2010 By 2 Comments

Readers of my last post will sense a major dissatisfaction on my part when it comes to blogging about the Law.   I have to say that the responses to that post were are encouraging.  To the readers who posted those responses: thank you.  Were it not for those comments, I suspect I would, after all was said and done, consider everything simply said…and done.

Instead, I’ve spent some time thinking about how to move forward.

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