Massachusetts attorney general OKs marijuana ballot initiatives
Source: Reuters
Ballot initiatives from two marijuana advocacy groups were approved by the Massachusetts attorney general on Wednesday, leaving it up to voters to decide whether pot smoking should be legal in the state.
The proposals, submitted to State Attorney General Maura Healey by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol and the Bay State Repeal, argue that legalizing the drug will make it easier to regulate its sale and prevent underage kids from accessing it. Now, the backers must collect and file signatures from more than 64,000 voters by Dec. 2. The proposal would then be sent to the Legislature in May.
If officials do not enact the initiative at that time, then proponents must collect an additional 10,000 signatures by early July to bring it to the ballot box in the November 2016 election. If passed, the proposal would become a state statute.
In Massachusetts, 53 percent of voters told a Suffolk University/Boston Herald poll in February that they would favor legalizing marijuana with just 37 percent opposing.
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state, after voters approved both medical and recreational cannabis, has removed the ability of some patients to get their medicine, grab usurious taxes with their greedy and callous hands from every transaction before it even gets to the consumer, and a campaign of disinformation and propaganda concerning cannabis use.
On the other hand, they are breathing life back into what had been a slowing underground just a year ago, in their clownish quest to regulate.
Not rock scientists, obviously. 
