Massachusetts: 'Yes on 4' launches first televised ad on marijuana legalization Monday

Despite a united front of opposition from leading Beacon Hill politicians and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, supporters of legalizing recreational marijuana in Massachusetts are striking back at critics with a new advertisement featuring a former Boston police lieutenant who is now a criminology professor.

On Monday, the advocacy group, “Yes on 4,” is scheduled to debut a television advertisement that will run on networks and cable stations in the Boston market. The $650,000 ad is the first television buy for either side of Question 4, one of the more contentious statewide referendums that voters will decide the fate of on Nov. 8.

Jim Borghesani, a spokesman for the Yes on 4...

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