Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:10 PM

kpete (38,900 posts)

State Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine Are Announcing Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow

Source: Reason

State Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine Are Announcing Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow
Mike Riggs|Nov. 14, 2012 11:20 am

State legislators in Rhode Island and Maine will announce bills tomorrow to legalize recreational marijuana, a spokesperson for the Marijuana Policy Project announced today.

Rhode Island Rep. Edith Ajello and Maine Rep. Diane Russell will hold a conference call tomorrow with the Marijuana Policy Project to announce the legislation.

MPP says that "similar proposals will be submitted in at least two other states — Vermont and Massachusetts." A ballot iniative legalizing medical marijuana passed in Massachusetts last week with more than 60 percent of the vote. Maine voters voted to expand the state's 1999 medical marijuana law in 2009 to include dispensaries. The Rhode Island legislature decriminalized marijuana earlier this year, and has had medical marijuana since 2006 (a stupid error on my part, since I blogged the Rhode Island legislature's decrim vote).

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/14/state-legislators-in-rhode-island-and-ma

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
State Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine Are Announcing Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow (Original post)	kpete	Nov 2012	OP
K&R for a sane and sensible drug policy	AlecBGreen	Nov 2012	#1
It is the Healing of the Nations!	SubgeniusHasSlack	Nov 2012	#2
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Nov 2012	#3
Your math is off, but point taken	FrodosPet	Nov 2012	#14
Kicked and recommended. Legalization, not decriminalization...	WheelWalker	Nov 2012	#4
awesome	Marrah_G	Nov 2012	#5
All the US needs to do now is wrap Reagan's coffin in copper wire	Posteritatis	Nov 2012	#6
This message was self-deleted by its author	bupkus	Nov 2012	#8
Good. n/t	PoliticAverse	Nov 2012	#7
Bide up, with reasoning.	StrictlyRockers	Nov 2012	#9
K&R	defacto7	Nov 2012	#10
I hope all 4 states legalize it.	RoccoR5955	Nov 2012	#11
Thank the goddess that the tide seems to be turning on this horrific war.	yardwork	Nov 2012	#12
Prohibition is a failed public polcy...again nt	TeamPooka	Nov 2012	#13

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:15 PM

AlecBGreen (3,872 posts)

1. K&R for a sane and sensible drug policy

:kick:

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:16 PM

SubgeniusHasSlack (276 posts)

2. It is the Healing of the Nations!

Jah's holy sacrament.

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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 07:06 AM

FrodosPet (1,028 posts)

14. Your math is off, but point taken

Actually, that is half of one hundredth of a percent. Sorry to be a stickler, but such an overstating does diminish a valid observation.

1 percent of 9,000,000 = 90,000
0.1% of 9,000,000 = 9000
0.01% of 9,000,000 = 900
0.005% of 9,000,000 = 450

Remember, 1 percent is the same as multiplying by .01

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:25 PM

WheelWalker (4,921 posts)

4. Kicked and recommended. Legalization, not decriminalization...

Decriminalizing personal use does nothing to eliminate the vast waste of resources directed at suppressing the trade in cannabis. Decriminalized users still have to break the law to obtain the herb, and associate with those who on many other levels are likely not law abiding citizens. Legalize and break the back of the illegal market, and redirect law enforcement resources to the suppression corporate criminals. Legalize and promote the homegrown solution. That is my view.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:27 PM

Marrah_G (22,446 posts)

5. awesome

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:32 PM

Posteritatis (17,299 posts)

6. All the US needs to do now is wrap Reagan's coffin in copper wire

War on drugs and energy problems gone in one fell swoop!

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:37 PM

PoliticAverse (5,538 posts)

7. Good. n/t

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 10:47 PM

StrictlyRockers (1,826 posts)

9. Bide up, with reasoning.

Humble yourselves. Let herb be the healing medicine that Jah intended it to be.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 11:38 PM

defacto7 (3,342 posts)

10. K&R

yes.. keep it going.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 11:46 PM

RoccoR5955 (6,496 posts)

11. I hope all 4 states legalize it.

This would start a domino effect of states legalizing the weed. Once NY legalizes it, it will be a matter of time until many other states pick it up, and the war on "drugs" will be over.

It would upset the apple cart of the commercial prisons, but this needs to be done. Perhaps they are realizing that if they legalized and taxed marijuana, they might be able to get out of the financial hole.

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Wed Nov 14, 2012, 11:49 PM

yardwork (37,075 posts)

12. Thank the goddess that the tide seems to be turning on this horrific war.

The owners of for-profit prisons are not going to be happy about this turn of events.

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Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:28 AM

TeamPooka (3,300 posts)

13. Prohibition is a failed public polcy...again nt

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