Must be the pot smoking.
Fire it up!
"Marijuana advocates lay groundwork for legalization in Mass.; Colo., Wash. votes bring push for a 2016 ballot item on legalization" by Joshua Miller | Globe Staff, January 13, 2014
Advocates of marijuana legalization, emboldened by successes with ballot questions in Colorado and Washington state, are laying the groundwork for such a battle in Massachusetts in the next presidential election year.
“In 2016, Massachusetts will find itself in the crosshairs for cannabis reform,” said Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of NORML, a national group that favors the legalization of marijuana.
Even the pot smokers have adopted the war terminology of the $moke$creen media.
Massachusetts voters passed measures that decriminalized possession of small amounts of the drug in 2008 and allowed its use for medical purposes in 2012 — both with more than 63 percent support….
And yet there is still not one clinic open.
But some critics and lawmakers caution that passage is far from guaranteed. Despite its liberal reputation, Massachusetts has a strong traditional strain that will make legal marijuana a tough sell, analysts say.
After 63% voted for medical and decriminalization?
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Then I would rather it remain illegal, especially since the drug-laundering banks don't want anything to do with it.
What real a$$holes bankers are, huh?
The Globe fits the same description as well for putting out that false narrative regarding the issue. What an agenda-pu$hing piece of stink weed is the f***ing Boston Globe.
I better go smoke a joint so I can calm down and get rid of this anger.
Oh, and I almost forgot: as far as I can tell, that "liberal reputation" applies only to gay marriage in this little Zionist laboratory we call Massachusetts.
“To make it available for recreational use, that’s going over a very different barrier,” said State Representative Ellen Story, an Amherst Democrat who explained it was easy for her to support decriminalization and medical marijuana but is reluctant to go further. “I’m not sure people in the state are ready for that and I’m certainly not sure I’m ready for that.”
Well, she is just a shitty little "liberal" state rep and we all will vote on this one so her opinion is irrelevant.
Still, advocates for legalization and analysts expect that public support would be especially potent in a presidential election year, when the electorate tends to include more younger voters.
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Especially since he broke another promise and is cracking down on pot!
“Opinion is changing very quickly on marijuana,” said Steve Koczela, the president of the nonpartisan MassINC Polling Group. He said a number of 2013 national polls found, for the first time, that a majority of Americans favor legalization of the drug. The rapid change, he said, “mirrors, in some ways, the same-sex marriage shift that’s taken place over the last few years.”
Is that what smoking marijuana does to you? Turn you gay?
And could we please stop having that agenda attached to every f***ing issue, agenda-pushing jewsmedia?
Better take another hit of the joint.
Outside groups are already pledging support — strategic and financial — to push for legalization in Massachusetts.
The Marijuana Policy Project, a national nonprofit that says it spent about $2 million on the successful 2012 campaign for legalization in Colorado, also plans to spend money in this state.
“We intend to support an initiative in Massachusetts in 2016 that would regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol,” said spokesman Mason Tvert. He declined to attach a specific dollar figure to that effort.
All of a $udden I'm not for it.
Bill Downing, treasurer of Bay State Repeal, a group created to get the legalization question on the ballot, said he expects other national groups to back the effort here. He said a successful bid would need at least a million dollars.
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You don't want all that out$ide money wafting in here, do you?
Some state political analysts from both parties estimate that, in a presidential year, it will take even more money to sustain a viable campaign. They say the effort will require a minimum of $3 million to $5 million. Even then, they say, perils abound.
Pot kills.
“Massachusetts is fertile ground for it to pass,” said Republican strategist Rob Gray. “But that ground could quickly turn fallow with the opposition of conservative Democrats and other conservative-leaning voters if enough money is raised to oppose legalization.”
Still, Gray said, he expects the pro-legalization groups to heavily outspend those opposed to the effort.
The ballot initiative is sure to revive familiar arguments, from opponents who worry that children would have easier access to marijuana if it were legal, as well as from supporters who say the drug is already widely available to youths on the black market.
I notice the stuffing of pre$cription pharmaceuticals down the kids' throats isn't that big a concern, or the toxic environment and rot gut food products.
While opponents have not formally mobilized, at least one law enforcement group already opposes legalization.
Oh, WHAT a SHOCK!
Now go tell your fed buddies to stop all the heroin, cocaine, and meth running. Thanks.
“We have seen the detrimental effects it has on families, especially youth,” said A. Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association. “From our experience in homes, families, they can’t keep prescription medications from the kids today and there is certainly nothing that would indicate they could keep legal marijuana from kids.”
Yeah, the more widely available and legal pre$cription drugs aren't much of a concern.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe also expressed strong disapproval. Whether the age is set at 18 or 21, he said, legalization would send “a signal to children that marijuana is OK.”
And when BANKS are TOO BIG to JAIL? What kind of ME$$AGE is that sending to KIDS?!!!!
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Looks like the scum O'Keefe won.
Analysts said the initiative’s success will rest on how legalization is framed to voters….
And if it is left to the Globe here I'm sure it will be dominated by the opposition with loads of references to the children.
Yeah, stealing their futures with student loan debt and sending them off too wars based on lies means the state pukes love them.
Now what is that funny smell?
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Can't legalize now.
