150 more questions

The following 150 questions brings the grand total to 1,500 questions about Proposition 19.

(Although I've also asked questions about Prop 19 in other blog posts besides Initial questions (850), and 500 more questions (500).)

Tobacco products in the US carry health warnings on their packaging. Alcoholic beverage containers in the US carry Surgeon General's warnings on their packaging. Will legal marijuana sold in California carry health warnings, and if so, what will marijuana health warnings say, and can local governments create their own health warnings? Will health warnings only be displayed on packs of joints or blunts? If all marijuana sold must carry a health warning, will the sale of loose weed be banned, or be required to be sold in a container carrying a health warning, or be sold in a store displaying health warning signs? Will consumers acknowledge or dispute any health risks of smoking or using marijuana?

For years people have said "legalize it!" If Prop 19 passes, will it be as great as everyone imagined for all those years?

Can someone lawfully possess under one ounce of marijuana in multiple baggies, multiple containers, multiple joints? Will any of those qualify as possession with intent to sell? How many consumers in California will sell or give a commercial joint to a minor? Will mass produced commercial marijuana joints become the most used form of marijuana by minors in California? How many minors in California will be found in possession of commercial marijuana joints, or marijuana that was packaged in commercial marijuana joints?

Which venture capitalists/venture capitalism firms will invest in the legal California marijuana industry?

Will marijuana workers join or form unions? Will there be a statewide Calfornia marijuana workers union?

Will any marijuana monopolies develop in California?

Can passengers in stationary/moving vehicles lawfully use marijuana as long as the driver is not impaired? If a cop sees passengers in a moving vehicle using marijuana, will that be enough for him to pull the car over?

How will Proposition 19 affect Coachella and Burning Man?

Will marijuana be smuggled out of California on planes, helicopters, hot air balloons, or other aircraft? Can someone legally create a marijuana smoke-or-vapor-filled blimp? Will cannabis be dropped across state lines, or onto barges in the ocean, or into the Pacific? Will fishing vessels be a popular way to smuggle marijuana to Japan and other countries? Will inspections by the Los Angeles Port Police increase? Will the Los Angeles Port Police or other port police hire more officers? How often will underwater smuggling out of California occur? Will any tunnels be built under the California state line to facilitate smuggling? Will there be a movement to build a California border fence?

When a private jet enters California airspace, can the passengers legally light up?

Will it be legal to use marijuana in bathroom stalls?

Can a weed store sell vapor bags that contain cannabis vapor from two or more strains? Can a vapor bar legally vaporize two or more strains at once in a single vaporizer? Can a weed store sell joints or blunts that each contain marijuana from two or more strains? What can blunt wraps legally be made of? Will we see products like Blue Widow joints and Blue Widow deconstructed joints (which contain bud from Blue Widow's parents, Blueberry and White Widow)? What will be the maximum number of different strains that a single joint or blunt can legally contain? Could someone legally sell a one ounce blunt that contains bud from 28 different strains? 100 different strains? Will there be legal limits on the number of different strains that can be extracted and present in containers of oils, tincture, hashes, drops, or edibles? Will it be legal to consume hash oil, tinctures, drops, and other cannabis extracts in public or in private businesses? Can someone patent, trademark, or copyright vapor ratios or joint ratios (for example 1 part OG Kush, 1 part Super Silver Haze, 2 parts Strawberry Cough)? Will it be lawful to flash freeze marijuana buds, plants, seeds?

Will home and garden stores or nurseries be allowed to carry cannabis seeds, seedlings, or mature plants?

Can cannabis legally be used to make flour, pasta, bread, cake, cookies, chips, crackers, pretzels, donuts, bagels, gravy, sauces, glazes, pudding, granola bars, or italian ices, sorbets, popsicles, snow cones, granitas, gelatos, or other frozen desserts? Can someone legally sell deep fried marijuana or deep fried food made with marijuana? Does S.258 affect marijuana products that contain any sugar or other sweeteners? Will any marijuana products be required to carry nutrition facts, expiration dates, or sell-by dates?

Can ice cream trucks also sell weed? Will someone be able to lawfully operate a marijuana truck or WeedMobile for mobile sales, or a mobile headshop, or a mobile grow equipment vehicle? Will a local government enact a law or ordinance that allows for licenses for people or companies to transport over one ounce of marijuana and sell it out of a vehicle? Will there be limits on the other products they can sell out of the vehicle?

Will there be a restriction on various other products that weed stores will be allowed to sell?

Can we expect gift packages containing complete sets of High Times Cannabis Cup awards winners from the past decade and beyond? Complete lines of other cup winners? Can they be sold in California airports? Will they be a seasonal item that appears in stores before April 20th?

If Prop 19 passes, what will happen in California on April 20th, 2011?

Will old strains considered to be rare or no longer available, re-emerge commercially if Prop 19 passes?

Where can marijuana grinders and choppers, designer gravity bongs, designer roach clips, designer stash boxes, and weed diversion safes be sold? Will it be legal to transport diversion safes in vehicles? If a cop pulls someone over and discovers a diversion safe with under an ounce of marijuana in it, will the driver be charged with anything?

Will there be height or size requirements on bongs made/sold?

Will Proposition 19 allow local governments to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their jurisdiction since many if not all dispensaries are commercial enterprises?

Will people be allowed to carry up to one ounce of weed on trains, including trains heading out of state, and can train passengers legally consume marijuana on trains?

If Proposition 19 passes, will weed stores be able to set up Facebook pages? Will minors be able to Friend them or Like them? Will weed stores be able to list prices and sales on Facebook or Twitter?

Can a California marijuana business set up an online store and accept online orders from California residents and ship to California residents? What kind of images or photographs or pictures or video or flash or HTML5 or content will they be allowed to display? Will minors be able to access the sites easily? Will users have to go through an extensive screening process or age verification or identity verification before being able to access the site?

Can a California company set up an online auction site specifically for person to person marijuana transactions? Will any local government or tribal council in California grant limited use marijuana sales licenses to sellers for such transactions, or perhaps allow a company to act as a some kind of broker or escrow service where a provider gives marijuana to the licensed broker, the broker accepts a donation from an interested party and keeps a commission, then gives the goods to the interested party, and donates money to the provider?

If Prop 19 passes, will there be an explosion of cybersquatting related to marijuana related domain names? Will California enact laws pertaining to the websites of weed stores and commercial growing companies? Will the United States Congress? What kind of online marketing can California marijuana businesses engage in? Can Calfornia marijuana businesses upload videos to Youtube, Google Video, or other online video sites? Will California marijuana businesses with a large online presence be targeted by the federal government?

Will it be legal to make/sell e-joints (electronic joints) or e-blunts (electronic blunts), much like e-cigarettes? Will there be laws on where they can be used? Can e-joints or e-blunts be used legally in public? Will it be legal to make/sell electronic bud changers (or hash, oil, tincture changers) which switch between strains for bongs or other devices? Will it be legal to make/sell cartridges for specific smoking/vaporizing devices? Will it be legal to make/sell USB devices or electronic storage drives shaped like marijuana leaves, joints, bongs, etc? An electronic device called a HotBox? Will it be legal to make/sell digital bongs or other smoking devices that connect to the Internet and send updates upon use? Will companies be allowed to sell marijuana themed computer casemods or equipment to perform them?

Will it be legal to make/sell a bong or pipe that looks like a firearm? Will it be legal to convert an existing firearm into a smoking device (a shotgun for example)? Will the sale of firearm smoking devices be limited to gun stores? Will there be limits on what legal pipes, bongs, and other smoking devices can be manufactured to look like? Will there be restrictions on smoking devices that perform additional functions? Can someone make/sell a cellphone that is also a vaporizer? Can someone make/sell an e-joint or vaporizer that plugs into a USB port or other port on a mobile electronic gadget or other computer device?

Will people in California applying for marijuana related patents or trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office be subject to federal prosecution?

Will it be legal to bring a gun into a weed store, marijuana bar, marijuana restaurant, or any business that sells marijuana products (including mobile businesses)?

Will there be an increase in 911 calls where people say someone stole their marijuana or growing equipment or is trying to break into their growhouse? Will police be able to do much about such theft? How often will police arrest the person who was robbed? What kind of 911 calls related to marijuana will be considered appropriate?

If Prop 19 passes, will it be legal for people to produce cannabis extracts and add them to other plant matter and sell it as potpourri or incense without a license?

Will companies be allowed to make/sell plastics derived from cannabis?

Will California residents who work for the United States Postal Service or other organizations that drug test be allowed to use legal marijuana when not at work? Any federal employees in California? People working for federally funded research and development centers in California? How about people employed or interning within the government of California or other state government agencies, departments, and commissions? Will employees in California have privacy rights regarding their cannabis usage when not at work? Will admitting to cannabis usage affect anyone's position in various organizations?

As of June 2010, the average retail price of electricity to consumers in California was $0.1551/kWh for the residential sector, $0.1498/kWh for the commercial sector, $0.1127/kWh for the industrial sector, $0.0839/kWh for the transportation sector, and $0.1441/kWh for all sectors. If Prop 19 passes and there is an increase in industrial growing and homegrowing using HID lighting, will power companies in California raise their rates to take advantage of the spike in power usage? Will they raise their rates to dissuade use or strengthen their infrastructure?

If Prop 19 passes, will the increase in industrial indoor cannabis production as well as homegrown indoor cannabis production, coupled with the popularization of electric vehicles, put a large strain on California's electrical infrastructure? Will increased electrical usage output more greenhouse gases or carbon into the atmosphere? What quantity of greenhouse emissions will be produced by electrical use by the indoor commercial marijuana industry or the indoor homegrow culture?

If Prop 19 passes, will cities and counties pass laws saying that homegrowers must have their indoor grow rooms inspected by a licensed professionals?

Can homegrowers legally burn waste cannabis plant matter in their yards? Will anyone make washing machine hash as described by Jorge Cervantes, but end up damaging their machine? Will anyone attempt it with a washing machine in a laundromat? If Prop 19 passes, will there be a large legal hash making industry in California? Will there also be a large underground hash making industry in California? Will commercial growers sell waste plant matter to hash making companies? Will it be legal to transport over one ounce of non-bud cannabis plant matter in California? Will the use of hash and other marijuana concentrates increase in California jails and prisons, and will it be evident by an increase in seized contraband?

How much more waste associated with marijuana growing will end up in landfills? Will any industrial wastewater end up in rivers, lakes, or groundwater? What about the effect of homegrow wastewater on water systems and water supplies?

If Prop 19 passes, will homegrowers without patient cards be able to sell their product to medical marijuana dispensaries? If Prop 19 passes, will dispensaries and collective stop buying product from patient members?

Will there be limits on how much marijuana can be bought by a customer daily in medical marijuana dispensaries? If there is no limit, will medical marijuana be priced higher than weed in legal weed stores to dissuade smuggling?

In October 2010, there was an incident on Falcon Lake on the US/Mexico border on the Rio Grande where Mexican pirates shot and killed a man jetskiing named David Hartley. The lead Mexican investigator in the case, police commander Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, was decapitated and his head was delivered in a suitcase to the Mexican military. If Prop 19 passes, will there be drug smuggling pirates on Lake Havasu and Lake Tahoe? Can we expect beheadings of California officers and detectives? Can we expect killings of people in California attempting to smuggle marijuana out of California, or people mistakenly believed to be smuggling and/or part of a rival organization?

If Prop 19 passes, what kind of lawsuits will be filed afterwards?

Will there be an increase in break-ins or thefts of cars that have marijuana and/or marijuana products inside? Will parking lots of weed stores be a popular spot for criminals?

If Prop 19 passes, eventually will California supply most of the cannabis consumed in the US, or possibly in the world? Years later will marijuana farming and/or marijuana product manufacturing be outsourced to low-wage or slave laborers in China or India?

How many substances can users combine with marijuana, and how many combinations of substances and 2,000 marijuana strains are there, and what effect will all of those combinations have on people?

Will companies be able to make/sell marijuana joints with menthol? Can a company lawfully use CYP inhibitors as an additive in their marijuana products? What additives can be used in the production of marijuana products? Will a company be allowed to purchase hashes, oils, tinctures, waxes, drops, or other cannabis concentrates and add them to their own products? Will a company be allowed to purchase hash oils wholesale in bulk and mix them all in any way they want? Will the Food and Drug Administration regulate marijuana products in California, or will local agencies perform that function?

If Prop 19 passes, will the security industry in California explode due to the security needs of marijuana businesses, with thousands and thousands of security contractors, ex-military, private military companies, and mercenaries entering California (including perhaps ex-members of the Mexican Armed Forces, possibly with ties to Mexican drug cartels, or security contractors with ties to any criminal organizations)?

Since Prop 19 claims intent to limit Health and Safety Code sections 11014.5 and 11364.5 relating to drug paraphernalia, does Prop 19 also legalize all drug pipes used in California, or provide a plausible cover story for possession of any and all drug pipes in California?

Will California companies be able to legally sell marijuana or marijuana products that were imported from foreign countries? What if the company selling the product didn't do the importing, someone else imported the product and the company purchased it from them for resale? If the sale of foreign cannabis imports is not allowed in California, will that also apply to imported cannabis seeds? If company in California is found to be selling imported cannabis seeds within California, will they simply have to pay a fine? What will happen if any of those seeds are found leaving California or found outside California?