This November the voters of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to make their state the 18th to allow for the medical use of marijuana. According to Wickedlocal the Committee for Compassionate Medicine managed to turn in enough signatures in the second round of signature collection to have their initiative placed on the ballot. From Wickedlocal: Read more »
Today, an initiative that would legalize personal marijuana possession and allow regulated sales of marijuana to adults will qualify for California's November general election ballot. A win at the ballot would be a first of its kind in U.S. history. This is a remarkable moment in the struggle to change our decades-old marijuana policies.
Marijuana was prohibited in 1937 before most Americans had ever heard of it. Today the U.S. leads the world in marijuana consumption. Nearly 26 million Americans used marijuana last year and more than 100 million have tried it in their lifetimes. A huge commodity of the underground economy, marijuana is the nation's top cash crop, valued at $14 billion in California alone. Our state Board of Equalization has estimated we would generate $1.4 billion a year by taxing marijuana like alcohol.
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Supporters of legalizing marijuana announced Thursday they have gathered about 700,000 signatures for their initiative, making it almost certain that Californians will be able to vote on it in November.
The marijuana advocates plan to turn in the petitions to elections officials in some of the state's larger counties, including Los Angeles, reports John Hoeffel in the Los Angeles Times.
Supporters need 433,971 valid signatures to qualify the measure, known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act.
The initiative's main promoter, medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, paid for the professional signature-gathering effort that was bolstered by volunteers from California's hundreds of cannabis dispensaries.
DrugSense recognizes Russell Barth of Nepean, Ontario for his seven letters published during November, bringing his total that we know of to 669. Frequently newspapers print 'Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User' and/or 'Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis' in his letter signature block. Less often newspapers may print a link to his website http://www.paidoc.org/
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This November the voters of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to make their state the 18th to allow for the medical use of marijuana. According to Wickedlocal the Committee for Compassionate Medicine managed to turn in enough signatures in the second round of signature collection to have their initiative placed on the ballot. From 
By. Stephen Gutwillig, Huffington Post
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