Union endorses initiative to legalize marijuana in California

[bigbrokush]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...control-and-tax-marijuana-in-california-.html



Union endorses initiative to legalize marijuana in California
July 14, 2010 | 4:23 pm
The 200,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers, Western States Council, on Wednesday announced its support for Proposition 19, the initiative to legalize marijuana in California.

“The Western States Council is endorsing Proposition 19 based upon our previous support of the medical cannabis initiative, 1996’s Proposition 215,” George Landers, the council's executive director, said in a statement. “We view Proposition 19 as an enhanced version of the previous proposition, that creates taxable revenue and produces jobs in agriculture, health care, retail and possibly textile. We further believe that the proposition will deprive narcotics traffickers of a significant source of criminal revenue.”

Ron Lind, international president of the union, and Dan Rush of its Local 5 also spoke out in favor of Proposition 19.

“The marriage of the cannabis-hemp industry and UFCW is a natural one,” said Rush. “We are an agriculture, food-processing and retail union, as is this industry.”

The council is the political arm of UFCW in several Western states. It comprises the UFCW local unions in the states it covers.

-- John Hoeffel

 

[Grass Lands]

If there is money to made the unions will be there...they ain't nothing but a bunch of money grubbing pathetic morons...

 

[vta]

Great news! We need more organizations to support this prop.

they ain't nothing but a bunch of money grubbing pathetic morons...

yeah your right, the companies should get all the profit and pay their workers as little as possible and without benefits.

 

[venturablaze]

They support it, yet the smokers don't. lol

 

[Grass Lands]

Great news! We need more organizations to support this prop.

Originally Posted by Grass Lands
they ain't nothing but a bunch of money grubbing pathetic morons...

yeah your right, the companies should get all the profit and pay their workers as little as possible and without benefits.

Lets just say I've been a member of two different unions and neither were there for the people...they were there for the money that lined there pockets...

What really needs to happen, the cannabis industry needs to create a new union, we should all pull together to set our own standards of excellence.

 

[F_T_P!]

They support it, yet the smokers don't. lol

That's because the multi national corporations that hire unions will take over the cannabis industry.They will be the only ones that this POS government will give permits for the commercial manufacturing of cannabis.

Regulation, control and tax. All bad for the true heads!

That is why this prop will go down in flames because it has NOTHING to do with legalization. This prop is about taxation without representation with control and power of the cannabis industry in the hands of the state.

 

[Grass Lands]

That's because the multi national corporations that hire unions will take over the cannabis industry.They will be the only ones that this POS government will give permits for the commercial manufacturing of cannabis.

Regulation, control and tax. All bad for the true heads!

That is why this prop will go down in flames because it has NOTHING to do with legalization. This prop is about taxation without representation with control and power of the cannabis industry in the hands of the state.

HOT DAMN!!!!

Finally some words of wisdom...