Will West Coast go all in on weed? Other battles to watch on election night
You say you wish this delightful campaign season could go beyond Tuesday? You wish you had even more contentious issues to consider than the menu of tax, minimum-wage, gun-control and more-tax measures already on your ballot?
You’ve come to the right place, because today we’re going to wander beyond this state’s borders to peek at what’s on the ballot elsewhere.
Why would we care? Because those issues will either affect what’s going on in Washington or could well wind up on future ballots in this state.
Oregon has a number of local ballot measures pertaining to marijuana, but in California recreational marijuana legalization is on the statewide ballot, as well as in Nevada and Arizona (and on the other side of the U.S., Maine and Massachusetts). If the measures pass, it would create a solid West Coast bloc along with Washington, Oregon and Alaska with legal weed. That in turn would limit whatever marketing advantage local and state purveyors might have been counting on as a tourism promotion device.
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