California voters rejected Proposition 19, the initiative that would legalize small amounts of recreational marijuana use statewide.
Fourteen years after approving marijuana for medical purposes, the state’s voters refused to make it legal for anyone 21 or older to grow, possess and use small amounts of pot. Possession would have been limited to less than an ounce, and cultivation to 25 square feet of private land, but marijuana would have remained illegal under federal law.
The measure would have allowed local governments to regulate and tax the commercial production, distribution and sale of pot to adults. Sales to minors would have been illegal, as would have possession on school grounds, use in public settings or smoking while minors are present.
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I don't know how everyone on here feels about this, or if they've even heard of it. Today was a sad day for our economy, environment, and crime rate in America and Mexico.