2016: The year of marijuana
2016, in Massachusetts and beyond, will be The Year of Marijuana.
In the Bay State, it all kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 7, when the Secretary of State delivers to the legislature a petition signed by over 64,750 voters calling for a law repealing marijuana prohibition and replacing it with a system of regulation and taxation, similar to how we have handled the alcohol industry since prohibition died in 1933, and how Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska have handled the marijuana industry since voters repealed prohibition in those states.
If both houses of the legislature pass it and the governor signs it by May 4, what the voters initiated becomes law. If the legislature fails to act, proponents will submit another 10,792 signatures and the measure goes to the ballot on Nov. 8.
When voters demanded decriminalization in 2008 and medical marijuana in 2012, marijuana was off Beacon Hill’s radar. Now,
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