I don't know all of the California laws on this (though that's where I live), but regardless, there are many consequences suffered by marijuana users.
Property and finances are confiscated for the most flimsy of reasons, in many cases no reason at all other than they caught you with pot and the P.D. can make money off of asset confiscation.
In some states at least, if you get a felony conviction, you are no longer eligible to vote!
Also in some states at least, with a felony conviction, you are no longer eligible for many forms of government assistance, such as food stamps, low-income healthcare programs, etc.
And though California has indeed started a "realignment" of its prison system, which includes releasing some non-violent offenders, this comes mostly because of the state's budget crisis, not because of a sense of justice, and it can easily revert back to full incarceration of these people once the state has more funds, or once the state elects a governor who disagrees with it.
By the way/ 
to you in Oakland. I'm in the north bay.
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