California Republican Negative Nabob of Negativity Party Opposes Pot Legalization

A state voter initiative to legalize and tax cannabis has officially qualified for the November ballot. California voters, of course, overwhelmingly supported a medical-marijuana referendum, and polling shows their support for legalization and taxation may not be a pipe dream.

Sorry.

More from negative nabob of negativity Nehring:

• "California Republicans will fight this and any other measure to expand drug use in California. When it comes to this kind of legislation, there's a reason they call it 'dope.'"

• "We . . . know that if a person makes it to age 21 without trying drugs, they're very unlikely to ever get started down the path of drug use beginning with dope and leading to much harder drugs like meth and cocaine."

• "Proponents of legalizing 'and taxing' dope are trying to mask their efforts as some kind of revenue generator for state government. Whatever 'taxes' dope smokers would pay would not come even close to covering the societal costs of hundreds of thousands of more Californians getting high, the accidents and health problems they would cause, and other societal costs."

Dude, mellow out.

Opposition from the Party of Hell No comes as no surprise, of course.

The state's Democratic Party is expected to weigh in after their executive board meets in July.

But don't hold your breath--cough, cough--that anything different will come from the Party of Wimp Asses.