Analysis: On Marijuana Legalization, Many Mass. Officials May Be On Wrong Side Of Public Opinion – Marijuana News

By every metric available, public opinion appears to favor legalization, and by wider margins with each passing year.

If there’s one thing that Massachusetts public officials — Democrat and Republican, urban and suburban, local and state — seem to agree on lately, it’s that the voters should not legalize marijuana at the polls this November.

First, the governor, the mayor of Boston and the attorney general (or, apparently, their staffs) penned a joint op-ed in The Boston Globe poo-pooing the proposed ballot question. Then, after a fact-finding trip to Colorado, a legislative panel issued a cautionary report, all but telling voters hopeful for legalization to grow up, wise up, and get off the damn State House lawn.

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Steve Koczela ~ WBUR.org ~


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