There was little real support for this among the general public. Prop. 215 (medical MJ) passed in 1996 because it seemed like it might benefit people (patients) who needed it. Without the medical appeal, it sounds a lot more like just making it easier for people to get high.
People are pretty ambivalent about MJ. A lot of cities have outlawed medical MJ dispensaries, or limited them.
And Prop 19 was not very well-written (like many propositions). Among other problems, it allowed each city and county to set their own rules for MJ regulation, which would have been a huge mess. It's not clear that there would have been significant tax revenues, for example.
There's a bill (AB 390) bouncing around the legislature now which is better crafted.
People are pretty ambivalent about MJ. A lot of cities have outlawed medical MJ dispensaries, or limited them.
And Prop 19 was not very well-written (like many propositions). Among other problems, it allowed each city and county to set their own rules for MJ regulation, which would have been a huge mess. It's not clear that there would have been significant tax revenues, for example.
There's a bill (AB 390) bouncing around the legislature now which is better crafted.