Marijuana legal in Washington State! AND Marriage Equality! I'm so proud!

[gateley]

[ohheckyeah]

1. Medical marijuana? n/t

[Poll_Blind]

3. Nope- Marijuana PERIOD. nt

PB

[suffragette]

13. We already approved medical marijuana. This is to legalize marijuana.

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2121970/Washington-voters-approved-legalized-marijuana

[ohheckyeah]

17. Well hot damn....

maybe we should move.

Good job Washington!

[suffragette]

20. You did well down there too, re-electing Obama and defeating George Allen

But yeah, we're happy up here! And you're welcome to come on up.

edit to add: And I'm proud to say that my retiring state legislator, Mary Lou Dickerson, has been in the lead on this issue for quite awhile, never giving up and helping to pave the way for it by bravely introducing and reintroducing legislation to legalize marijuana before people thought it had a chance. I'm going to miss having her as my state rep.
My state senator also deserves kudos for doing the same.

[ohheckyeah]

22. Hey - I might do it.

I am so relieved Obama took VA and Kaine won.

I know of a few people I converted so I'm feeling good.

It felt really nice when my brother, who didn't vote but hates Romney, called to congratulate me. He knew I had been really uptight.

[suffragette]

23. I've been fortunate to have great progressive state reps and senator

who moved this forward by proposing it for awhile now. I edited my other post to add some info on that.
That's sweet about your brother

[ohheckyeah]

24. It's so great what your state has done.

Yeah, my brother has made a pretty big turnaround about a lot of things including a woman's right to choose and gay marriage. He's getting there!

[suffragette]

27. I'm sure you had a lot to do with his turnaround :)

Good job!

[hifiguy]

2. You should be!

The Left Coast is leading the way once again.

[Marrah_G]

4. Thank you Washington!

[libodem]

5. Woo Hoo

For both!,,,

[Zulan]

6. My vote helped! Go Washington!

Proud to be Liberal.

[nolabear]

7. Me too. I knew we were reasonable.

[barbtries]

8. that is great.

being in NC i am so feeling bittersweet, but i love all the good news from elsewhere. wish i was back home in CA right now

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

15. I'm bummed 37, GMO labeling, appears to be losing... n/t

[Ya Basta]

29. Yea been watching that too

The only thing hopeful is that there's still a lot of precincts to still report in. Hopefully the ones that have reported are the ones in the smaller conservative counties and agriculture counties.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Loving every minute of it

Go Washington

[Poll_Blind]

10. Word! nt

PB

[suffragette]

11. I'm so proud, too!

[Sinistrous]

12. I hope the tide has turned...

on both issues.

[pokerfan]

14. Never thought I'd see it

Neither affects me personally but voted for both!

[gateley]

18. Ditto.

[wickerwoman]

25. Ditto

And never been prouder to send in a ballot than I was sending in this one.

[marlakay]

16. I am so happy

Going to bring out the pipe at my book club tomorrow! And champagne for obama!

[Ya Basta]

19. Way to go Washington! The "Evergreen State" =)

[OldHippieChick]

21. CO also approved marijuana

we already had medical marijuana. Marriage equality not n the ballot, but overturning Citizen's United is. Have not seen results for that yet.

[gateley]

28. To surprised about CO -- I read a really interesting article on CO in Rolling Stone --

Did you see it?

[Go Vols]

30. k

[Angleae]

31. Now it becomes a question of what Eric Holder and the DOJ will do.

Marijuana is now legal under WA law, not federal law.


PS: Colorado too.

[eridani]

32. Ref 74 still close, but King County is always the last to fully report because of sheer size

I'm betting it will go through. One of my phonebanking buddies will now get to marry his girlfriend. Nope--no typos. His lady is transgendered and was born in Ohio, where they refuse to change her birth gender, so he has to marry her as someone who is still legally male--which he can now most likely do.