Will Massachusetts Voters Back Legal Pot Campaigns?
Two separate advocacy groups pushing for the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts have begun collecting voter signatures aimed at a statewide ballot measure next year, reported The Republican, a news outlet based in Springfield, Massachusetts, Thursday. The groups have significant differences in thought regarding the regulation and taxation of legal weed, and both aim to have their proposals featured on the November 2016 ballot.
State Attorney General Maura Healey approved the competing ballot questions, meaning both groups are now scrambling to collect the necessary voter signatures to have their proposals put before voters in 2016. While both groups want to legalize recreational marijuana, their approaches to how it would be carried out are vastly different.
Bay State Repeal, the lesser-funded of the two groups, wants to legalize marijuana without new regulations or restrictions other than adding Massachusetts' 6.25 percent state sales tax to purchases. Bay State Repeal's competition, the Campaign to...
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