Weed advocates don't like this Mass. senator
Marijuana advocates are trying to block an anti-legalization lawmaker from becoming the state Senate’s point person on pot, contending that his outspoken criticism of recreational marijuana makes him unfit for the position.
The advocates are lobbying Senate leaders not to appoint Senator Jason M. Lewis as the co-chairman of the new Committee on Marijuana because Lewis was a key opponent of Question 4, which legalized pot purchase, possession, and use.
Jim Borghesani, who helped run the ballot campaign and now works for the national Marijuana Policy Project, said advocates don’t think the Legislature should tinker with the law at all before the marijuana oversight body it creates has time to make regulations.
“That said, if this proposed committee moves forward, we think the chairs should be as agnostic as possible regarding legalization and the law passed by voters in November,” Borghesani said in a statement. “A person who chose the...
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