Prop 64: How will it work?

A lot of questions still need to be answered before California’s recreational marijuana laws go into effect.

It’s been 48 hours since California overwhelmingly passed Prop 64. The measure legalized the use of recreational marijuana but a lot of questions still linger about what exactly are the rules that follow. Some Californians are still trying to figure to inhale the passage of Prop 64, said they’re a little foggy on the details of what’s legal and what’s not.

“A lot of them do think they can do it anywhere, like example park, usually they go to someone else’s house. But now that it is legalized a lot of them are like oh you can do it at work,” said Hartnell student, Jalissa Anguiano.

The new measure states that you can’t smoke pot in a public place or wherever smoking cigarettes are banned. Those who don’t follow Prop 64 rules could face a $100 to $200 fine.

“I hope they get good lawyers that’s all I can say for that,” said Anguiano.

Aaron Johnson is a local cannabis attorney who said with the passing of Prop 64 he could be seeing more legal cases if businesses don’t stay informed.

“Certain regulations will come about over the next year and so those that are in the business will have to pay attention to what’s happening over the next course of the year or so to determine what their restrictions are as a business,” said Johnson.

Current medical marijuana shops can’t convert to selling recreational pot, but that will change in 2018. When the measure allows non-medical marijuana to be sold by state licensed businesses. If you’re worried about getting pulled over with too much weed, now the legal limit is an ounce. However, departments like Marina police said they’ll be on the lookout for anyone under the influence.

“Realistically it doesn’t change anything for us so we always enforce our DUI’s with a zero tolerance whether it be alcohol related or prescription pill related medication related or marijuana DUI’s,” said Marina police, traffic sergeant, Eddie Anderson.

Marina police said they don’t normally get a lot of marijuana dui arrests. Sgt. Anderson said it’s going to be interesting to see if the numbers go up since the passing of Prop 64.