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Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012
#13440171 - 11/05/10 06:10 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 November 5, 2010 - tokeofthetown.com
Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions on Tuesday.
Massachusetts allows for citizens to put non-binding local "public policy questions" on the ballot, reports Jon Walker at FireDogLake. And voters in several precincts weighed in this year on whether their local representatives should "vote in favor of legislation that would allow the state to regulate and tax marijuana in the same manner as alcohol."
More than 150,000 votes were cast on the marijuana issue across Massachusetts in districts containing about 8.5 percent of the total vote.
In the districts where pot policy was on the ballot, the advisory question passed with an overwhelming 61 percent of the vote, but those districts were slightly more liberal than the rest of the state, according to FireDogLake. So to determine how those results might translate to a statewide marijuana legalization ballot question, Walker used two different metrics to analyze the data.
Walker's analysis led him to conclude that a small majority of the individuals who turned out to vote this year in Massachusetts supported legalizing and regulating cannabis in the same way the state does alcohol.
"This is a good sign for marijuana reform given that midterm elections tend to have much lower turnouts among young voters," Walker said, "who are, in general, more supportive of legalization -- and this midterm in particular had a higher than normal turnout among older conservatives, who tend not to support marijuana reform."
"For these reasons, the 2012 electorate is almost assured to be even more supportive of legalization than the 2010 electorate," Walker said.
"This analysis of the election results, combined with other factors, suggests Massachusetts is a strong candidate for becoming one of the first states to embrace legalization," Walker said. "There is strong evidence that if a well-crafted marijuana legalization initiative makes it onto the ballot in 2012, it could pass."
Since 2000, Massachusetts voters have reacted positively to every ballot question before them which eased restrictions on marijuana, reports David Riley at The Metro WestDaily News.
To date, voters have approved all 63 public policy questions regarding marijuana legalization, including 18 this year, according to advocacy groups, Riley reports.
This year's measures were put up by the Drug Policy Forum of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MassCann), the state chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
The ballot questions demonstrate wide public support for reforming marijuana laws and serve as a grassroots organizing and public education tool, according to Scott Mortimer, a volunteer for the Drug Policy Forum. The DPF backs legislation to allow authorized medical patients to grow, possess and buy marijuana if recommended by a doctor.
"We're polling a giant portion of the population," said Bill Downing, director of MassCann. "We're not calling them on the phone and asking them questions -- they're actually going into a ballot box and voting." MassCann supports a bill to legalize marijuana and allow state regulation and taxation of its production, sales and distribution.
"One of the major purposes of running these public policy questions is to have the most accurate public polling that we can have," Downing said. "The reason for that is so that we can take those numbers to moneyed sources and say, look -- if you want to win, you can do it here in Massachusetts."
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: veggie]
#13440428 - 11/05/10 07:18 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Awesome.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: skatealex2]
#13440455 - 11/05/10 07:23 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Mickalopagus]
#13440538 - 11/05/10 07:43 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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sweet!
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13440552 - 11/05/10 07:48 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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here we go again jp i really do want this to pass, maybe this time around people will get the hint
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Hashishins]
#13440559 - 11/05/10 07:51 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Its not going to happen in Mass, BUT, the more states that even try the better, It IS going to happen eventually, thats not the dabate anymore, just when.
hopefully In 6 years cali has it passed and theres a handful of states that are trying.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13440933 - 11/05/10 09:13 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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i believe cali has really brung it to light that , this is something most people like,or need medically. and the more states that put it to ballot will encourage others to do the same, as to which states its unpredictable.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: veggie]
#13440941 - 11/05/10 09:15 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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God I love to see this
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Oohway]
#13440955 - 11/05/10 09:20 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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i just cant believe they chose booze over weed,in the olden days. if not we'd probably bitch about that too!lol i'd say this was cause it was easier to moniter,and regulate. they even enforced how much yeast.sugar a person could buy. man o man.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13441294 - 11/05/10 10:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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i was thinking i was gonna move to cali, looks like i don't have to go anywhere!
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sui said: Its not going to happen in Mass, BUT, the more states that even try the better, It IS going to happen eventually, thats not the dabate anymore, just when.
hopefully In 6 years cali has it passed and theres a handful of states that are trying.
why do you say this? the polls pretty much show the majority of the state wants to do it you think that is a year it will change? i doubt it
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Revolutionine]
#13441438 - 11/05/10 11:07 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Looks like another state might beat Cali to the punch! Not that it matters..full legalization in ANY state would be a real blessing to see.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: SuperD]
#13441659 - 11/06/10 12:03 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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haha cali will be the first. But its awesome to see some bills coming up in other states.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13442020 - 11/06/10 02:29 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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The more places that are making that claim, the more desensitized people will become to the idea.
About 70 years ago, people were scared out of the minds about cannabis, well only those that had never tried it, they believed it would make you kill people and (other things I won't mention that offend people to read).
Many people are still buying into the propaganda of how scary it is, when actually, it is alcohol and some of the other illegal drugs that are scary.
I would love to see a claim about legalizing or even just decriminalization where I live, but I was told that "where I live" will be the LAST place to do it, if ever.
Too bad California lost Prop 19 by 7.81% more people voting no, if it had passed, there is a chance that many non-medical California residents could have legally received cannabis for a Christmas present that was legally purchased from a store without anything more than a legal state ID.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13442111 - 11/06/10 03:16 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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sui said: haha cali will be the first. But its awesome to see some bills coming up in other states.
if i know Californians correct though, theyre ego-driven and ambitious enough to make sure the leading edge starts here, and nowhere else. if there are two states voting for this in 2012, there will be a lot of yes votes in cali.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Mickalopagus]
#13442171 - 11/06/10 03:59 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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one of the reasons why the vote didnt pass, is out of state intrests donating money to the opposition, Facebook founders made a huge deal out of donating like 200, 000 bucks while an out of state intrest quieatly doanted 1000000 without a word.
These same intreses theat threw away 1000000 bucks DAYS before the election here would have NONE of a legalization in Mass.
We have time it will happen just in cali first. I just hope that the precedent that we set is a good one.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13445830 - 11/06/10 10:17 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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sui said: one of the reasons why the vote didnt pass, is out of state intrests donating money to the opposition, Facebook founders made a huge deal out of donating like 200, 000 bucks while an out of state intrest quieatly doanted 1000000 without a word.
These same intreses theat threw away 1000000 bucks DAYS before the election here would have NONE of a legalization in Mass.
We have time it will happen just in cali first. I just hope that the precedent that we set is a good one.
man you californians seem like you may be a bit butthurt if you aren't the first state to legalize. i don't care who does it first as long as it happens. i'm actually betting canada as a whole does it before any u.s states
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Revolutionine]
#13445966 - 11/06/10 10:49 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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California had a shot at being the first state but they decided against it. Maybe next time around. But Massachusetts has an excellent chance, also Colorado, Oregon, and Washington too. One or more states will make it happen in 2012.
(And since the 2012 Mayan apocalypse has been postponed we will all be able to celebrate. That would have been such a drag that pot was legalized and then the world ended.)
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: veggie]
#13446041 - 11/06/10 11:09 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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2012 will be an exciting year, cataclysm or no cataclysm. How great would it be if multiple states legalized on the same day?
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: sui]
#13446399 - 11/07/10 12:53 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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sui said: Its not going to happen in Mass, BUT, the more states that even try the better, It IS going to happen eventually, thats not the dabate anymore, just when.
hopefully In 6 years cali has it passed and theres a handful of states that are trying.
No faith in Massachusetts? I can see it passing there more easily than Cali?
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: Society]
#13446681 - 11/07/10 02:03 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Society said:
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sui said: Its not going to happen in Mass, BUT, the more states that even try the better, It IS going to happen eventually, thats not the dabate anymore, just when.
hopefully In 6 years cali has it passed and theres a handful of states that are trying.
No faith in Massachusetts? I can see it passing there more easily than Cali?
Me two. I've lived in both Cali and Massachusetts. I think Mass has an excellent chance in passing it. The people up there seem very modern and level-headed.
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Re: Massachusetts Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012 [Re: MOTH]
#13446695 - 11/07/10 02:12 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Its about time, the government lets us, smoke something that comes out of the earth. Shit they let us smoke rat poison..
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