Senator Proposes Curtailing Marijuana Rules Laid Out in Massachusetts Ballot Initiative
A Massachusetts senator and staunch opponent to the legalization of recreational marijuana is taking aim at the law passed through a statewide ballot initiative last November.
Sen. Jason Lewis, a Winchester Democrat, has filed a series of bills that nip, tuck and slash pieces of the legislation laid out in a ballot question passed by state voters on Nov. 8.
In an interview Friday, Lewis told The Boston Globe he believes the ballot initiative's support was for the generalities of legal possession and usage of marijuana in Massachusetts, but that defining the specifics is down to the Legislature.
“I don’t believe that people were voting on things like whether you should be able to homegrow three plants, or six plants, or 12 plants,” he told the paper, "or whether the marijuana tax rate was 3.75 percent or 5 percent or 12 percent. ... It’s in everybody’s best interest,...
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