MPP.ORG: ..As I’m sure you’ve heard, Colorado and Washington voters approved a pair of ballot measures to allow adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and to buy it from state-licensed vendors. And in Colorado, adults can also grow up to six marijuana plants once the election is certified.
The Colorado and Washington initiatives passed with 54.6% and 55.4% of the vote, respectively. As a result, these two states now have the best marijuana laws in the world. (Better than even Holland, where marijuana cultivation is illegal.)
Unfortunately, a similar proposal to regulate marijuana like alcohol failed in Oregon, garnering only 45% of the vote. This was expected, as that campaign was severely under-funded.
Regarding medical marijuana …
– In Massachusetts, 63.4% of voters approved the broadest medical marijuana law since Californians passed their law in 1996. As a result, Massachusetts patients with any condition for which a doctor recommends marijuana may purchase it from state-licensed dispensaries or, in some cases, cultivate it at home.
– In Arkansas, voters narrowly defeated an MPP-sponsored measure that would have made Arkansas the first state in the South with an effective medical marijuana law. The ballot question received 48.6% of the vote.
– In Montana, 56.8% of voters approved a bad legislature-enacted law that gutted the state’s medical marijuana law (which MPP passed in 2004). As a result, dispensaries will remain illegal, and we’ll now have to lobby the state legislature to improve Montana’s law.
