Dr. Kevin Hill, top marijuana expert, urges Massachusetts legislators to act as legalization 'hot potato' heads to ballot
The Massachusetts state senator who chairs a special committee on marijuana came out against legalizing the substance, warning voters about the proposed initiative on track for the November statewide ballot.
"I am opposed to the likely ballot question because this is the wrong time for Massachusetts to go down this road, and a commercial, profit-driven market is the wrong approach to take," Sen. Jason Lewis, a Winchester Democrat and a former McKinsey & Company consultant, told the Boston Globe.
But Dr. Kevin Hill, an addiction psychiatrist who authored the book "Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth About the World's Most Popular Weed," says questions about who is for or against the ballot initiative are the wrong ones.
"The time for that has come and gone," he said, adding that the Legislature should be instead focused on coming up with an alternate proposal.
An independent group, called the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like...
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