What is the reason behind California cancer warning labels? Literally everything seems to be causing cancer. I just bought a few s2s maple boards from a local lumber supplier and each one had a sticker saying it’s known to the State of California to cause cancer. A maple board? There’s no treatment or paint on it. It’s just a milled and poorly planed piece of lumber.
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It’s a totally foreseeable consequence of a state constitution that will let you make anything part of the constitution if you can get enough signatures to put a proposition on the ballot and get enough yes votes.
Like a lot of things it sounded good at the time as long as you didn’t think too hard about it.
Now unless someone wants to spend a lot of time and money to repeal it—very unlikely—we are stuck with it.
[We don’t have the longest one, though](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_constitutions_in_the_United_States)
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