Is Gavin Newsom’s marijuana ‘legalization’ initiative a scam?

it does not appear to be headed to the ballot soon as Chris Roberts in the SF Weekly reports:

” There’s no timetable on drafting legalization ballot language. There’s not even certainty as to who will write it — or if it happens at all in 2016. There are just questions — and one tall politician, surrounded by admirers in Carhartts, smelling faintly of terpenes.”