“More Massachusetts voters support legalization today than did a decade ago, and these election results prove it.”
“HJR 4 wasn’t anti-marijuana; it was anti-democracy.”
Election Day is just days away and the stakes for marijuana freedom couldn’t be higher.
No state has ever repealed its marijuana legalization laws. Despite prohibitionists’ ever-growing reliance upon dubious tactics and sensational rhetoric, Massachusetts won’t be the first to do so.
“These results are consistent with those of numerous other studies showing that licensed cannabis businesses displace unregulated markets, limit youth access, and provide important improvements to local economies and to public safety.”
“Reforming America’s failed marijuana prohibition laws enjoys bipartisan support among voters. Candidates and elected officials who ignore this reality do so at their own political peril.”
“The interest of NORML here is not in protecting a particular company’s profits. It is in preserving the civil accountability on which consumers in state-regulated cannabis markets depend.”
Prohibitionists aren’t just fighting to prevent or repeal marijuana legalization. They’re also trying to take the decision away from voters entirely.