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Roberts, Chris. “Bad Medicine: Why marijuana<\/span> advocates oppose an initiative legalizing pot.” S.F. Weekly ,ProQuest 19 May. 2010. Web. 19 July. 2015<\/p>\n

Chris Roberts is an investigative journalist and writer from San Francisco,\u00a0California and the author of\u00a0 Bad Medicine: Why marijuana advocates oppose an initiative legalizing pot.\u00a0<\/em>In the article, published by\u00a0New Times Media LLC in May of 2010, Roberts reported that the cops and medical marijuana activists has met eye to eye about what the effects of legalizing marijuana would have on \u00a0tax. According to the medical pot advocates, he emphasizes how cops don’t favor the issue because it deals with dope and how it would create new criminal penalties for marijuana use.<\/p>\n

Roberts claims that California has recently crafted a law that treats marijuana as a more or less equal to alcohol while increasing tax revenue \u00a0to 1 billion dollars. Roberts mentions how the Tax Cannabis 2010 would make it a crime to use medical marijuana<\/span> in front of a minor by penalizing the user with fines and incarceration. The punishments are strict in order to encourage those to stray away from marijuana use. The fines are up to $1,000 with a 6-month county jail confinement in addition to the 3 to 7 years of state prison sentence. \u00a0This illustrates the debate\u00a0of\u00a0the legalization of marijuana among the cops and marijuana medical advocates.<\/p>\n

Although Roberts mention the costly affect of marijuana legalization, he also mention how 700,000 individuals question the legalization of marijuana while signing \u00a0a petition that goes against the legalization of marijuana. He especially mentions Dennis Peron to give a point a view of a person who has prior experience with the\u00a0laws involving marijuana. He coined the name\u00a0“Kevin Reed of San Francisco’s Green Cross” to specify a individual who signed a petition, giving credibility upon the subject of matter that had the majority of the population questioning the topic of legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n

Roberts included a researcher named “Jeff Jones” and a “University called\u00a0Oaksterdam University’s Richard Lee” to show what results they concluded from the over-reactor on the topic. They discovered\u00a0from the cops and marijuana medical advocates, who are against the legalization of marijuana, that\u00a0they believed the legalization is meant to remove the felonies instead creating more felons in the process. The people Roberts \u00a0included in his article believed that the mandatory minimums provided by the law now would help the law enforcement officers \u00a0shift focus away from the marijuana issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roberts, Chris. “Bad Medicine: Why marijuana advocates oppose an initiative legalizing pot.” S.F. Weekly ,ProQuest 19 May. 2010. Web. 19 July. 2015 Chris Roberts is an investigative journalist and writer from San Francisco,\u00a0California and the author of\u00a0 Bad Medicine: Why … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}