Rhode Island hedging its bets as Mass. considers recreational marijuana

Question 4, which would approve the taxing and sale of marijuana — instead of keeping it on the list of illegal drugs — is going before Massachusetts voters next Tuesday. But the results are expected to have an impact in Rhode Island as well.

“I’m taking a slower approach to make sure [that] if we do it, we get it right,” Gov. Gina Raimondo told Eyewitness News on Wednesday. If Massachusetts okays it, she told the Providence Journal this week, “we have to look at it harder and faster.”

But there are several issues still to consider, she said. “If we legalize too quickly and without the right regulation, I worry about children, I worry about high schoolers, I worry about edibles.”

Legalization of recreational marijuana is ahead in most polls. But last weekend, a campaign finance report revealed the Archdiocese of Boston gave $850,000 to a group...

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