november. polls in the nation s most populous state suggest residents are about evenly split on this issue. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us live from our d.c. bureau. i tweetedabout this and the range of comments regarding this which a some assume because california was the first to legalize medicinal marijuana it would be a natural decision to move forwardhere. reporter: it may be for a lot of people in california, it may not be. it doesn t seem to havefo attracts, r example, the kind of money from big donorers that pass marijuana initiatives in california there s a wait and see attitude from some big supporters around the cntry. but the supporters in california include the naacp there, number of black law enforcement organizes who say that this would they oppose the current laws because they disproportionately affect african-americans who are out or proportion, arrested and jailed for marijuana offense. what supporters say is, look, 400,000 people in califor