City Councilman Thomas Small is not ready to announce whether he will support or oppose one of the most magnetic issues on the Nov. 8 ballot, legalization of marijuana.
“I have decided to not come down yet on Prop. 64,” he said. “I don’t feel as if I have a good enough grasp of what it would look like.”
Mr. Small had stepped outside the doors of a League of Cities conference in Long Beach yesterday when he registered his opinion.
At least two of his colleagues on the Council have declared their opinions – in favor of 64.
Mr. Small explained.
“I drove to Long Beach because I had other work to do on the way down here,” said the architectural consultant-journalist.
Meanwhile, Mr. Small noted, his Council colleagues Meghan Sahli-Wells and Mayor Jim Clarke “were very forward. They took the train.
“They were talking about how they had the beautiful smell of marijuana in a number of places while taking the train.
“That made us all realize that if (Prop. 64) passes (on Nov. 8), we are all going to smell that everywhere.
“That was a new perspective,” said Mr. Small. “Every time I have a conversation about this, I wonder: What are going to be the unintended consequences?”
