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Mass: Gov. Charlie Baker, Speaker Robert DeLeo team up to create anti-marijuana legalization ballot committee

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 09:36

Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh are teaming up with other prominent Massachusetts politicians to form a ballot committee to fight against the legalization of recreational marijuana.

"As we face a substance addiction crisis of epic proportions, I oppose measures that make it easier to introduce young people to drug use," DeLeo said in a statement.

Voters in 2016 will vote on a ballot question that would legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, following in the path of states like Colorado and Washington. A poll released Thursday by Western New England University Polling Institute found that 57 percent of Massachusetts voters currently support legalization.

But most of the state's top politicians oppose it.

Baker said in a statement that allowing recreational marijuana "would put our children at risk and threaten to reverse our progress combating the growing opioid epidemic so this industry can rake in millions...

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