Iraq's Talabani says will not sign Aziz death order

Iraq's high tribunal passed a death sentence on Aziz, once the international face of saddam goverment,, in October over the persecution of Islamic parties in Iraq during Saddam's rule

The Vatican and Russia both called on Iraq not to carry out the death sentence on humanitarian grounds, noting his age and health problems. The Vatican said mercy would help the war-torn country make progress toward reconciliation, peace and justice.The U.S. government did not join the appeals to spare Aziz's life. Analysts said that was partly because the United States itself carries out the death penalty and also possibly because it did not consider his hands to be entirely clean.

Prop 19 Campaign.....

(Novemeber 2nd 2010 California Statewide Ballot as an intnitiated State Statute)for it had been approved , woukld have leagalized  various mariujauana-related activites in california ( although not as a matter of federal law) , allowing local goverments to regulate these activites , permitting local gopverments to impose and collect maruijuana-related fees, taxes and authorizing various criminal and civil penalties.

election results
N0   ( 3,826,487)  %53.8
YES ( 3,297,590) %46.2

       Total Votes-7,124,077
current legal status
Gov.Arnold Schwarnagger signed SB 1449 on octorber 1, 2010. Effective Janurary 1, 2011 sb 1449 turns the possession of less than an ounce of marujiuana from a criminal misdemeanor into a civil infraction.
Medical Mariujauna is already Legal in california, although not as a matter of federal law due to the entactment of prop.215 in 1996.

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_19,_the_Marijuana_Legalization_Initiative_(2010)