Yeah, I can't see it happenin here in Texas anytime soon either

A cuppla years ago proponents of decriminalization here felt they'd achieved a big victory when simple possession of small amounts was made an issue whereby a ticket is written and no one gets carted off to jail for it anymore. But, the penalties remained exactly the same, meaning the fines and punishments remained unchanged and that the cops just didn't haul you in for it anymore. which really looks like about the same change California actually made too.

Seems like it could also lead to a secondary budget windfall as it would seem there will be a likelihood for cops to write more of these infraction tickets than they might have made arrests for small amounts previously due to the increased headaches and paperwork involved in having made those arrests comparatively. This would lead to the possibility of lots more of those $100 tickets bein issued with almost no additional costs to the judicial system except in adjudicating and collecting the fees from the "ticketholders" which all in all would be VERY beneficial to the system.

Anyone who feels the judicial system is geared more towards justice than it is towards $$$ is seriously misguided and delusional. Justice is simply the tool required to separate the governed from more of their $$.

I'm curious what difference being convicted of a legal "infraction" is compared to being convicted of a misdemeanor? Still it really looks like more of a budgetary victory for the California legal system (just like it was here) than it does a win for the legalization bunch