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Marijuana legalization is leading in every state where it’s on the ballot this Novemb

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Marijuana advocates are heading into the final weeks of the 2016 campaign with the wind at their backs as the latest polling shows legalization measures currently favored by voters in all five states where they're on the ballot.This is something of a reversal from just a month ago, when the most recent polling had shown voters wary of legalization measures in Massachusetts and Arizona. But the margins of support aren't huge in any state, meaning that the contests could still swing either way.
Polling ballot issues is a tricky business, all the more so with marijuana-related issues, where responses can be heavily influenced by particular question wording. So in the same state, different polls with different question wording can yield radically different results even if fielded at similar times. Those caveats aside, here's what the latest numbers show.


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Hooozah! :applaud
The failed prohibition in all states where it is on the ballot has a strong possibility of finally being erased from the law books!
 
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Read more @: Marijuana legalization is leading in every state where it’s on the ballot this November

Hooozah! :applaud
The failed prohibition in all states where it is on the ballot has a strong possibility of finally being erased from the law books! [/FONT][/COLOR]

Great news for everyone in those states.
Five years ago, if you had told me that America would take steps to normalize drug laws ahead of Canada I'd have said you were smoking something really special!
 
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Great news for everyone in those states.
Five years ago, if you had told me that America would take steps to normalize drug laws ahead of Canada I'd have said you were smoking something really special!

Ha! Take that, you dirty Canadian! USA! USA!
 
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Ha! Take that, you dirty Canadian! USA! USA!

I blame your Constitution. Your states have a degree of autonomy that Canadian provincial Premiers can only yearn for.
Anyway, good on ya (dirty Yanks!).
 
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I blame your Constitution. Your states have a degree of autonomy that Canadian provincial Premiers can only yearn for.
Anyway, good on ya (dirty Yanks!).

Did you just call me a Yankee? Here in the Bible Belt, them's fighting words.
 
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I am voting No in AZ. Not because I object to personal use of marijuana, but because the legislation is poorly written. Unlike alcohol , there is no defined definition of "under the influence", or public intoxication. I see problems when it comes to companies that have a no drug use policy for employment. Would this law override State, Federal or companies policies of no drug use?

A very poorly written law for AZ.
 
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Hooozah! :applaud
The failed prohibition in all states where it is on the ballot has a strong possibility of finally being erased from the law books! [/FONT][/COLOR]

Not long ago it looked hopeless for Arizona. Polling was 39% for and I haven't seen any "pro" marijuana adds at all. Recent polling now have it at a toss up and the "con" marijuana ads are popping up.

I am voting No in AZ. Not because I object to personal use of marijuana, but because the legislation is poorly written. Unlike alcohol , there is no defined definition of "under the influence", or public intoxication. I see problems when it comes to companies that have a no drug use policy for employment. Would this law override State, Federal or companies policies of no drug use?

A very poorly written law for AZ.

I'm voting for it in spite of the wording. I think those issues can be fixed. The reason I'm voting for it even though I have no intention of using it is it's none of the governments business what someone puts in their own body.
 
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Did you just call me a Yankee? Here in the Bible Belt, them's fighting words.

Sorry, if you lay your head down between Miami and Seattle, you're a Yank.
There's degrees, of course. You're probably not a damn Yankee, you probably don't drive a Yank tank and you may never have been accused of first-degree Gringoism (Yankness, in Hispanish), but a Yank nonetheless.
Hey, no worries about it. I'm not just a Canuck- I worked illegally in the US years ago so I'm a frostback.
 
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If Arizona now favors recreational pot I suspect it might be because of the heavy handed way the anti-pot people and most of the state government has responded to Proposition 205. Much of their opposition seems to be following a Reefer Madness script. A number of public statements they've made are very misleading or blatantly false.

Colorado has not seen an increase in the use of pot since the law passed. Usage by children in Colorado has decreased, not increased. The Colorado state director of marijuana programs has recently countered claims to the contrary, among others. This isn't secret information.

You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to know when someone is blowing smoke up your butt. My guess is people in Arizona know they're being shucked and jived on obvious points and thus suspect that the much of the rest of the information the state is giving them is false.
 
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I'm voting for it in spite of the wording. I think those issues can be fixed. The reason I'm voting for it even though I have no intention of using it is it's none of the governments business what someone puts in their own body.

Guess my vote will cancels yours. You have seen how AZ works. You really believe the lawmakers will fix the problems? That is a laugh in AZ.

What I would like to see is safe guards to protect the public. Current prop 205 lacks in that area.

Personally I don't care what someone does in their own home. The problem is containing it to home use. Some users (like alcohol abusers), may not be able to keep it to the home. The law is weak in allow prosecution of under the influence while driving.

Also don't like that it creates more govt.
 
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Obama needs to decriminalize/resched cannabis on his way out. It's the right thing to do.
 
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Great news for everyone in those states.
Five years ago, if you had told me that America would take steps to normalize drug laws ahead of Canada I'd have said you were smoking something really special!

You're taking baby steps though.

The DEA still exists and at the federal level there's still a severe issue.

The Canadian government plans to fully legalize at the federal level, Marijuana for recreational use, Spring 2017.

I am very disappointed however, that in the meantime, they have not sought any level of decriminalization which was actually the promise of the NDP government, that they may not legalize, but in the first legislative session they would decriminalize.

So it's disappointing that people are still being arrested for possession TODAY what hopefully will be legal in a few months.
 
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Pretty soon, we'll get bragging rights over Europe, canada, and australia.
 
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Obama needs to decriminalize/resched cannabis on his way out. It's the right thing to do.

His latest stance is to do nothing, reschedling cannabis is best left to Congress, he has passed the buck to a GOP Congress, we all know were that has gone despite some low level efforts on both sides.
 
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Not long ago it looked hopeless for Arizona. Polling was 39% for and I haven't seen any "pro" marijuana adds at all. Recent polling now have it at a toss up and the "con" marijuana ads are popping up.



I'm voting for it in spite of the wording. I think those issues can be fixed. The reason I'm voting for it even though I have no intention of using it is it's none of the governments business what someone puts in their own body.

I voted against it in AZ. Not that I am against recreational use of pot. The law is poorly written and the AZ legislatures have a very poor record on correcting laws once passed. Especially ones that involve taxes.

It is a shame the law was not better prepared.
 
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I say if the law catches you with a single joint, you should have to serve 20 years without parole. That will teach you junky losers to behave and become raging alcoholics like the rest of us law abiding citizens..
 
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It's on the ballot in Maine and if past votes on weed are any indication, it will pass. We decriminalized weed in the 70s, allow for hemp farming, and passed two different MMJ laws.

There's the usual unintentionally hilarious "Reefer Madness" type misinformation being disseminated by the usual suspects from the uptight brigade, but there's also pushback from the other side of things, too -- this is a legalization bill based on laws of CO and WA and the "No on 1" people are largely claiming it would end up promoting a corporate weed industry that would benefit outside investors and corporations more than it would residents of the state. Some of this is sour grapes -- the current ballot initiative referendum question is a compromise between a looser state effort and tighter MPP national lobbying group who came into the state. And there's the usual suspect hippies and libertarians who resent legalization/regulation, compared to decriminalization and a completely unregulated market.

One of the credible counter-arguments of the "Yes on 1" groups is that much of the resistance from the "No on 1" crowd, especially those saying it will harm the MMJ setup, is from MMJ growers trying to protect their interests, specifically non-legal sales outside the regulated MMJ channel.

Of course our dreadful Governor, The Beast LePage, has vowed to block implementation even if the people of ME approve it by way more votes than he received as Governor, so I'm sure even with a legalization vote, it might take another future ballot initiative, a legislature with balls (unlikely, since they were too cowardly to consider a legal weed bill in the first place), or at least a legal fight. He's term-limited out in two years, so even considering what efforts he might bring to bear, I'm figuring legal weed in ME actually for sale 2-3 years out. It would be nice if laws regarding personal use and growing changed immediately...
 
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Btw, proposition 205 of Arizona failed so not all of them passed.
 
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bud should be legal THE WORLD OVER, PERIOD ..............

as far as I know & as far as I have read, there has NEVER been a single documented example of a single human ODing on the good bud, never

do I partake now? no. did I ever? :2razz:

the fact of the matter is those in power, particularly within the US have ALWAYS had a hard on for weed, for whatever reasons

if America is TRULY the land of the free then we are STILL living in a prison of INJUSTICE

NOW, when is Trump gonna act presidential??????
 
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