​Prop. 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana possession and use in California, was winning among likely voters according to a new ABC7/Survey USA poll. If the election were held now the proposition would win 47 to 43 percent. That's the good news for pot supporters. The bad news, according to the poll: The number of people committed to voting for the law has decreased by four percentage points.

Of course, Survey USA's automated "robo-call" polls often differ from others, and surveys on this issue seem to be all over the map anyway.

According to the ABC7/Survey USA poll, women, older Californians, minorities and Central Valley residents have given momentum to the initiative's decreasing support.

"It's the folks who are most concerned with what legalizing the recreational use of marijuana will do to children, to schools, to ethnic communities, to public safety," Roger Salazar, the No on Prop. 19 campaign's spokesman, told ABC7.

The initiative would allow Californian's to possess up to one ounce of cannabis while allowing cities and municipalities to allow, outlaw or regulate its sale in retail establishments.

Dan Newman, Yes on Prop. 19 campaign spokesman, tells the station, "We're seeing that Californians are ready to embrace some modest, common-sense reforms to our failed marijuana laws."'

I think that this proposition can do nothing but good for California. This Proposition would bring california out of the recession in a heartbeat. It has been shown that if tax marijuana it can generate more than a billion dollars. Plus if marijuana is legal the production of hemp will go up and hemp is the durable material on this planet. The people of California would be extremely ignorant not to legalize it and just blindly believe the governments lies about this plant. When you look at the history of why it was illegalized it was not because it was harmful but because William R. Hearst was threatened by hemp being that he was one of the biggest manufacturer of paper so he cnstructed lies saying that mexicans and blacks were smoking it and rapeing people so congress mad it illegal without thinking twice. In short if California legalizes it we will be a prosperous and happy state.

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for using nonviolence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China, which accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of violating its own principles by honoring "a criminal."

I think this fits in perfectly of what we have been talking about in class and the six principles of government and how some governments deny there people basic human rights. In china all the information on Liu is being censored so he cannot help enforce change or be a hero to the chinese people. Its a shame that chinas government has such huge censorship on all media but at least there are still people in china willing to fight for their rights.