Marijuana legalization leads referendum questions on November ballot

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Source: Portland Press Herald

A proposal to legalize marijuana will top the November referendum ballot, state election officials announced Monday.

Secretary of State Matt Dunlap released the order in which five citizen initiatives will appear on the November ballot. The order was determined by a random drawing.

The campaign behind each citizens’ initiative had to collect at least 61,123 valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot. The Secretary of State’s Office last week approved the final wording of the questions. The questions will appear on the ballot in the following order:

– Question 1: An Act to Legalize Marijuana. “Do you want to allow the possession and use of marijuana under state law by persons who are at least 21 years of age, and allow the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of marijuana and marijuana products subject to state regulation, taxation and local ordinance?”

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Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/27/maine-marijuana-question-first-on-november-ballot/

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YES ON 1

[RKP5637]

1. Excellent!!! K&R!!!!! n/t

[msongs]

2. if it does not allow grow your own it is not legalization, just swapping drug dealers nt

[cannabis_flower]

3. It does

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/27/after-another-look-maine-secretary-of-state-says-marijuana-legalization-can-appear-on-ballot/

The legalization bill would allow adults to possess up to 2½ ounces of marijuana and to cultivate a limited number of plants. Retail stores and social clubs would be allowed with municipal approval. Adults would be prohibited from using marijuana in public, with violations punishable by a $100 fine. The bill also would place a sales tax of 10 percent on retail marijuana and marijuana products.

[forest444]

5. If it'll help Governor LePig mellow out a little, I'm all for it.

I doubt he will be anything but violently opposed to this though.

[TonyPDX]

11. That's actually not a bad start.

Home cultivation can certainly be included later, and a 10% tax isn't bad.

Step by step.

[jtuck004]

4. 8 charged with illegally selling pot by delivery in Seattle

But you can go in a store and buy it, if you pay the taxes at the distributor, and the taxes at the store, to the hypocrites of the state.

SEATTLE (AP) - Authorities in Seattle say eight people have been charged for illegally selling marijuana through delivery services.

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said in a news release the defendants were arrested in April and charged Tuesday.

Marijuana sales are allowed under state law, but only in licensed stores.
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Courtesy of the jack booted thugs of the Washington State Weed Control Board and the politicians that enable them.

I hope yours goes better.

[maxsolomon]

6. Wow, the hyperbole - "Jackbooted Thugs"?

Look, delivery is not allowed in the Initiative that was passed in WA. It was specifically crafted to be as acceptable to non-users as possible. No home grow, no delivery. It's not the legalization we want; its the one we got.

The City of Seattle bent over backwards to warn the people doing delivery that they needed to stop, and most did. They're going to get fines, probably. Not hard time in Monroe.

Congrats to Maine - Cannabis sanity is spreading across the nation whether the US Congress likes it or not.

[TonyPDX]

12. Exactly-- just like you can't sell booze out of your car. n/t

[maxsolomon]

7. Maine, right?

No info about where is contained in the OP. Can you add?

[geomon666]

9. Yes it's Maine.

I was confused too considering marijuana is legal in Oregon.

[PatrickforO]

8. Should pass. In Colorado it has become nearly a billion dollar a year business.

The sooner the rest of the USA legalizes the sooner the vicious drug cartels will have their fangs pulled.

[JackRiddler]

10. #5 is ranked choice voting (instant runoff)

Please let it pass!

[bluedigger]

13. Dirigo!

[raven mad]

14. LOL! I still giggle -

That bunch of stoners from Colorado and Washington could NOT play a Super Bowl, right?

Legal way up here, too - go OREGON!!!