There was a flyer in my mailbox today. The flyer opposes measures O and P. The flyer includes a picture of a cache of arms, implying that the passage of these measures would cause more gangsters with guns. The problem is that the guns are here now and O and P have not yet been voted on, let alone passed! Gangsters come, as they did in the days of Prohibition, because of black market profits.
Secondly, there will be no O and P. There will be an O or P, even if both pass. The reason is that if two measures pass and are contradictory, as are O and P, the one with the most votes will become law.
Measure O as I have said previously, provides reasonable regulation and funds enforcement. Measure P is characterized by bloviated language and approaches anarchy and provides no protection for non- growers other than the application of existing laws, an approach, which I glean, after attending several meetings on the subject of marijuana, has no merit.
The flyer features a headline that a girl was “sexually abused at Lake County pot farm.” Girls have been sexually abused in Beverly Hills. Does that mean that wealth causes sexual abuse?
The flyer contains bullet points that the measures provide no “protection, limits, safety, or controls.” This may be true of measure P. However, Measure O, very precisely, does address these categories. The authors of the flyer have not read O, or, in the alternative, have such an antipathetic response to anything that has to do with pot, that they have lost the ability to reason. That is why the flyer does not allude to any of the specifics in Measure O, but rather resorts to manipulative propaganda techniques. Say “nope” to “dopes.” Vote yes on O.
Nelson Strasser, Lakeport
