# Attorney General Harris opposes California Proposition 19 marijuana legalisation

Date: 2010

## The fact

In 2010 [Kamala Harris](/people/kamala-harris), then attorney general-elect/AG, opposed Proposition 19, which would have legalised recreational cannabis in California. Voters rejected it.

## Context

Later 2016 Prop 64 legalised cannabis after she was in the Senate. Neighbouring truancy is a DA file. She did not write the 2016 statute.

Truancy 2008 is neighbouring. Senate 2016 is later.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

California Department of Justice carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice: a completed AG opposition to a legalisation initiative is a dated criminal-law-retention instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2010 public opposition to Prop 19 by Harris, independently reported; the measure failed.

Not established: that she authored the 2016 legalisation as a senator, or a unique later incarceration coefficient from that November.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Voters rejected 19. Later Prop 64 is a different date.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Attorney General Harris opposes California Proposition 19 marijuana legalisation, not a later speech about Attorney General Harris opposes California Proposition 19 marijuana legalisation.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Attorney General Harris opposes California Proposition 19 marijuana legalisation on 2010-11-02 is not a licence to treat every later California Department of Justice communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Attorney General Harris opposes California Proposition 19 marijuana legalisation into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She opposed as AG. Voters rejected 19. Later Prop 64 is a different date. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-marijuana-california-idUSTRE6A15R220101102
- https://oag.ca.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-prop19-2010