Proposition 19 (California, 2010)

Times editor-at-large and editorial board member Jim Newton recently joined the folks at UCLA, where he is also a senior fellow at the School of Public Affairs, to analyze the midterm elections. On Jerry Brown versus Meg Whitman: "Each of......

"White people between the ages of 18 and 25 use marijuana at a higher rate than their black peers, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, so you would naturally assume that young white people would also......

Besides George Soros, the marijuana legalization measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot has won itself few friends in high places. The Obama administration's position is nay, and just about every Democrat and Republican running for statewide office --...

They came not to bury Proposition 19 but to praise it. They left having done a little bit of both. The final election-day news conference on behalf of legalizing marijuana in California was an odd amalgam of get-out-the-vote effort and......

Republican Anthony Smith, 47, of Orange voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003. But he felt Meg Whitman's prescription for fixing the state's fiscal problems and unemployment was "like listening to a fairy tale." Q: Why did you vote......

Backers of Proposition 19 are counting on a big youth vote in their uphill battle to legalize marijuana in California. Although polls show Proposition 19 trailing, backers told The Times' John Hoeffel and Maria L. LaGanga this week that the......

After Zach Galifianakis appeared to sparkup a joint Friday during a Proposition 19 discussion on "Real Time With Bill Maher," panelist Margaret Hoover took a whiff and seemed to confirm the weed was real. However, Maher's publicist told website RumorFix.....

The Times exit polling has confirmed what many preelection polls concluded: Californians do not want to legalize marijuana. The ballot counting is just beginning, and many supporters on Twitter are waiting to see the final results. But some are taking.......

One of the biggest terms being tweeted today is the phrase "Prop 19." Apparrently Twitter is abuzz with the possibility of California legalizing the herbal buzz. Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathon Gold tweeted from Pasadena about food, senior...

California voters did not buy the argument that marijuana should be legalized and controlled like alcohol, but many agreed that it should be taxed like it. Voters in 10 cities around the state on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed local measures to......

Zach Taylor, a patient at the Farmacy, a marijuana dispensary with branches in West Hollywood and other locations, said he was not surprised that voters rejected Proposition 19. "There was so much opposition," Taylor, a hairdresser, said of the measure......

Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana in California, drew its strongest support in the Bay Area, passing in San Francisco and five nearby counties. San Francisco voters were most ready to see legal weed sold in their neighborhoods, favoring......