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Rosenberg: 'No appetite' in legislature for marijuana legalization

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 17:33

BOSTON -- The legalization of recreational marijuana is likely headed to the 2016 ballot, with "no appetite" among state lawmakers to handle the issue first, according to Senate President Stanley Rosenberg.

"There's been conversations and there seems to be no appetite in the Legislature to take up ... recreational marijuana, so you should expect to see it on the ballot in 2016," Rosenberg (D-Amherst) said in an interview on the Boston Herald's internet radio station on Tuesday.

A group called "Bay State Repeal" is seeking to place a question on the ballot, which will requiring drafting language that must be first approved by the attorney general and gathering signatures from voters.

Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Attorney General Maura Healey and law enforcement officials have said they oppose full legalization. Rosenberg on Tuesday declined to state his position on full marijuana legalization.

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