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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Maine marijuana-legalization groups join forces on ballot measure 🌿Maine marijuana-legalization groups join forces on ballot measure
BOSTON/SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Two groups that had backed competing ballot initiatives to make recreational use of marijuana legal in Maine agreed on Monday to join forces on one measure to put before voters in 2016.
The state is one of six where competing pro-marijuana groups hope to hold referendums on marijuana legalization in 2016, following 2012 votes that legalized the drug in Colorado and Oregon. Attitudes about marijuana in the United States have changed markedly since then, as voters in Washington, Alaska and the District of Columbia have followed suit. Voters in Ohio will weigh in on legalization next month.
In Maine, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol said that it would put its organization behind a ballot initiative submitted by Legalize Maine.
Legalize Maine had already collected about 40,000 signatures of voters who support the initiative and would need a total of 61,000 by January to place...
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