The Stockton Record has this editorial on several of the California ballot propositions. Here is the portion on Proposition 5:

"This is a bad idea masquerading as a good law. And what it would do is undermine, more likely destroy, the highly effective drug court system we have now. This proposition is opposed by every Superior Court judge in San Joaquin County, the men and women who daily deal with the shattering results of drug abuse. Cost will be an immediate problem, with the requirement that $150 million be put into the Substance Abuse Treatment Fund to pay for the balance of this year and then $460 million, adjusted yearly for inflation, be allocated every year thereafter. This proposition would set up an untried experiment, create an entirely new oversight bureaucracy and even limit the ability of legislative intervention by requiring a four-fifths vote of the Legislature to change things. That's a nearly impossible threshold, as our recent experience with the two-thirds vote on the state budget demonstrates. We have drug courts, and they work. We don't need a costly new experiment. If changes are needed in drug court, it is the Legislature's responsibility to make them."