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Source: Reason.com
http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/14/state-legislators-in-rhode-island-and-ma
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 passed medical marijuana legislation earlier this year.
Correction: This post originally said that the bills would be introduced tomorrow. They will be announced tomorrow, and introduced when legislative sessions begin.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Should be legal nationally.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)I think she's gonna owe me twenty bucks. Guess what I am going to be spending it on...
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Colorado and Washington kicked the door open and many states will soon follow. Good for Maine and RI. Who's next?
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Christie vetoed legislatively passed MMJ. He is on the wrong side of history.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)Soon enough, the feds will have to remove cannabis from Schedule I listing.
d_r
(6,907 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Who is going to be the last state to legalize?
Utah?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)Since it's the only state in the U.S. that is legally authorized to grow marijuana - and has to, to provide for the 8 remaining patients in a program that required the U.S. to honor the rights of patients whose best medicine for their illnesses is marijuana.
because we are in the throes of a conservative freak out... going backwards faster than you can count.
If not... the last will be whatever state has the most private prisons.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)All the rest following suit. Imagine there are just a few Republicans grateful about the Democrat's win???
RainDog
(28,784 posts)Flatpicker
(894 posts)This issue needs to go away.
It's just a pointless waste of LE funds.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)But even so, this is absolutely wonderful news.